Candidatus Rickettsia andeanae, a spotted fever group agent infecting Amblyomma parvum ticks in two Brazilian biomes


Autoria(s): Nieri-Bastos,Fernanda Aparecida; Lopes,Marcos Gomes; Cançado,Paulo Henrique Duarte; Rossa,Giselle Ayres Razera; Faccini,João Luiz Horácio; Gennari,Solange Maria; Labruna,Marcelo Bahia
Data(s)

01/04/2014

Resumo

Adult ticks of the species Amblyomma parvum were collected from the vegetation in the Pantanal biome (state of Mato Grosso do Sul) and from horses in the Cerrado biome (state of Piauí) in Brazil. The ticks were individually tested for rickettsial infection via polymerase chain reaction (PCR) targeting three rickettsial genes, gltA, ompA and ompB. Overall, 63.5% (40/63) and 66.7% (2/3) of A. parvum ticks from Pantanal and Cerrado, respectively, contained rickettsial DNA, which were all confirmed by DNA sequencing to be 100% identical to the corresponding fragments of the gltA, ompA and ompB genes of Candidatus Rickettsia andeanae. This report is the first to describe Ca. R. andeanae in Brazil.

Formato

text/html

Identificador

http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0074-02762014000200259

Idioma(s)

en

Publicador

Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Ministério da Saúde

Fonte

Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz v.109 n.2 2014

Palavras-Chave #ticks #Amblyomma parvum #Candidatus Rickettsia andeanae
Tipo

journal article