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Evidencia molecular de Rickettsia ricketsii y Rickettsia felis en garrapatas colectadas en ganado bovino en la costa de Chiapas

Salud Pública de México, 2023
Objetivo. Estimar la diversidad de garrapatas, la prevalencia de infestación y tasa de infección de Rickettsia spp. en ganado bovino en la costa del estado de Chiapas. Material y métodos.
Rogelio Danis-Lozano, Susana Camacho-Ramírez, Gerardo Álvarez-Hernández, Marcia Leyva-Gastelum, Luis Alberto Cisneros-Vásquez, Karla R Dzul-Rosado, Ildefonso Fernández-Salas, Teresa López-Ordoñez   +7 more
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Development of a Multiplex Loop-Mediated Isothermal Amplification (LAMP) Method for Simultaneous Detection of Spotted Fever Group Rickettsiae and Malaria Parasites by Dipstick DNA Chromatography

Diagnostics, 2020
Spotted fever group (SFG) rickettsiae causes febrile illness in humans worldwide. Since SFG rickettsiosis’s clinical presentation is nonspecific, it is frequently misdiagnosed as other febrile diseases, especially malaria, and complicates proper ...
Lavel Chinyama Moonga, Kyoko Hayashida, Naoko Kawai, Ryo Nakao, Chihiro Sugimoto, Boniface Namangala, Junya Yamagishi   +6 more
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Tick-transmitted co-infections among erythema migrans patients in a general practice setting in Norway: a clinical and laboratory follow-up study

BMC Infectious Diseases, 2021
Background Erythema migrans (EM) is the most common manifestation of Lyme borreliosis. Here, we examined EM patients in Norwegian general practice to find the proportion exposed to tick-transmitted microorganisms other than Borrelia, and the impact of co-
Knut Eirik Eliassen, Lukas Frans Ocias, Karen A. Krogfelt, Peter Wilhelmsson, Susanne Gjeruldsen Dudman, Åshild Andreassen, Morten Lindbak, Per-Eric Lindgren   +7 more
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Detection of Tick-Borne Pathogens in Ticks from Cattle in Western Highlands of Cameroon

Microorganisms, 2022
This study aimed to detect and identify microorganisms in ticks collected in the Western Highlands of Cameroon. Quantitative real-time and standard PCR assays, coupled with sequencing, were used.
Yannick Ngnindji-Youdje, Adama Zan Diarra, Michel Lontsi-Demano, Timoléon Tchuinkam, Philippe Parola   +4 more
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Molecular detection of Bartonella spp. and Rickettsia spp. in bat ectoparasites in Brazil. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2018
The family Streblidae comprises a monophyletic group of Hippoboscoidea, hematophagous dipterans that parasitize bats. Bartonella spp. and Rickettsia spp.
Renan Bressianini do Amaral, Elizabete Captivo Lourenço, Kátia Maria Famadas, Amanda Barbosa Garcia, Rosangela Zacarias Machado, Marcos Rogério André   +5 more
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Molecular identification of Borrelia and Rickettsia in hard ticks infesting domestic and wild animals in Cameroon

Parasite Epidemiology and Control
Ticks are blood-sucking arthropods which can vector various, pathogenic microorganisms between humans and domestic or wild animal hosts. In Cameroon, little is still known about the diversity of ticks and tick-borne pathogens found feeding on these ...
Archile Paguem, Pierre Kamtsap, Kingsley Tanyi Manchang, Alfons Renz, Sabine Schaper, Gerhard. Dobler, Robert E. Rollins, Lidia Chitimia-Dobler   +7 more
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Prevalence of Rickettsia spp. in Ticks and Serological and Clinical Outcomes in Tick-Bitten Individuals in Sweden and on the Åland Islands.

PLoS ONE, 2016
Tick-transmitted diseases are an emerging health problem, and the hard tick Ixodes ricinus is the main vector for Borrelia spp., tick-borne encephalitis virus and most of the spotted fever Rickettsiae in Europe.
Anders Lindblom, Katarina Wallménius, Johanna Sjöwall, Linda Fryland, Peter Wilhelmsson, Per-Eric Lindgren, Pia Forsberg, Kenneth Nilsson   +7 more
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Tick-Borne Pathogens in Ticks Collected from Wild Ungulates in North-Eastern Poland

Pathogens, 2021
This study was carried out in north-eastern Poland during two hunting seasons between 2018 and 2020. Ticks (Ixodes ricinus and Dermacentor reticulatus) were removed from wild cervids and boars and examined for the presence of Borrelia spirochetes and ...
Mirosław M. Michalski, Katarzyna Kubiak, Magdalena Szczotko, Małgorzata Dmitryjuk   +3 more
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Diversity of Rickettsia species in collected ticks from Southeast Iran

BMC Veterinary Research
Rickettsia occurs worldwide and rickettsiosis is recognized as an emerging infection in several parts of the world. Ticks are reservoir hosts for pathogenic Rickettsia species in humans and domestic animals.
Ali Qorbani, Mohammad Khalili, Saeidreza Nourollahifard, Ehsan Mostafavi, Mehrdad Farrokhnia, Saber Esmaeili   +5 more
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Large-Scale Survey for Tickborne Bacteria, Khammouan Province, Laos

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2016
We screened 768 tick pools containing 6,962 ticks from Khammouan Province, Laos, by using quantitative real-time PCR and identified Rickettsia spp., Ehrlichia spp., and Borrelia spp. Sequencing of Rickettsia spp.–positive and Borrelia spp.–positive pools
Andrew J. Taylor, Khamsing Vongphayloth, Malavanh Vongsouvath, Marc Grandadam, Paul T. Brey, Paul N. Newton, Ian W. Sutherland, Sabine Dittrich   +7 more
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