title: Spotted fever group Rickettsia in Dermacentor variabilis (Acari: Ixodidae) infesting raccoons (Carnivora: Procyonidae) and opossums (Marsupialia: Didelphimorphidae) in Tennessee.
abstract: Spotted fever group Rickettsia were present in 13 of 1,171 (1.1%) of adult Dermacentor variabilis Say removed from raccoons (Procyon lotor L.) and Virginia opossums (Didelphis virginiana Kerr) in western Tennessee. Spotted fever group Rickettsia were detected by amplification of a 617-bp segment of the citrate synthase gene by polymerase chain reaction.
authors.affiliation: Department of Entomology, US Army Medical Component, Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Sciences, Bangkok, Thailand.
authors.forename: T M
authors.initials: TM
authors.lastname: Kollars
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kengluecha
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D003870:Dermacentor / Q000382:microbiology*; D009893:Opossums / Q000469:parasitology*; D011821:Raccoons / Q000469:parasitology*; D012281:Rickettsia / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D013714:Tennessee; D013984:Tick Infestations / Q000469:parasitology / Q000662:veterinary*