title: Prevalence data of Rickettsia slovaca and other SFG Rickettsiae species in Dermacentor marginatus in the southeastern Iberian peninsula.
abstract: In southern Spain, Dermacentor marginatus ticks can be infected with several genospecies of spotted fever Group (SFG) Rickettsia. We developed a nested polymerase chain reaction assay by using a species-specific probe targeting the ompA gene to detect and differentiate between the two groups of rickettsiae previously described in D. marginatus. SFG rickettsia has been detected in 85.15% of ticks studied (26.7% of positives have been to R. slovaca, the causative agent of TIBOLA-DEBONEL, and 73.3% to SFG rickettsia closely related to strains RpA4-JL-02-DnS14-DnS28).
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Biología Animal, Biología Vegetal y Ecología, Universidad de Jaén, Paraje Las Lagunillas s/n, 23071-Jaén, Spain. jmarquez@ujaen.es
authors.forename: F J
authors.initials: FJ
authors.lastname: Márquez
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Rojas
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Ibarra
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Cantero
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Rojas
authors.forename: J A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Oteo
authors.forename: M A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Muniain
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002980:Climate; D003870:Dermacentor / Q000382:microbiology*; D005838:Genotype; D005843:Geography; D012281:Rickettsia / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D013030:Spain