Detection of Rickettsia amblyommii in association with a tick bite rash.
In the summer of 2006, an Amblyomma americanum tick was removed from a woman in central North Carolina, who subsequently developed a rash at the site of tick attachment. When examined by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) for Borrelia, Anaplasma, Ehrlichia, Babesia, Rickettsia, and Bartonella DNA, only the Rickettsia primers generated an amplicon, which was identified as "R. amblyommii" by sequencing. To our knowledge, this is the first case in which R. amblyommii was temporally associated with a rash.
Vector-Borne Diagnostic Disease Laboratory, North Carolina State University, College of Veterinary Medicine, Raleigh, North Carolina 27606, USA.
Sarah A
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Billeter
Hunter L
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Blanton
Susan E
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Little
Michael G
MG
Levy
Edward B
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Breitschwerdt
D000818:Animals; D001425:Bacterial Outer Membrane Proteins / Q000235:genetics; D001483:Base Sequence; D001733:Bites and Stings / Q000150:complications* / Q000382:microbiology; D005076:Exanthema / Q000209:etiology* / Q000382:microbiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D012281:Rickettsia / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D012282:Rickettsia Infections / Q000150:complications* / Q000382:microbiology*; D016415:Sequence Alignment; D012689:Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid; D013022:South Carolina; D017282:Tick-Borne Diseases / Q000150:complications* / Q000382:microbiology*; D013987:Ticks / Q000382:microbiology
D001425:Bacterial Outer Membrane Proteins; C078167:OMPA outer membrane proteins