title: Rickettsia amblyommii infecting Amblyomma sculptum in endemic spotted fever area from southeastern Brazil.
abstract: The Rickettsia bacteria include the aetiological agents for the human spotted fever (SF) disease. In the present study, a SF group Rickettsia amblyommii related bacterium was detected in a field collected Amblyomma sculptum (Amblyomma cajennense species complex) tick from a Brazilian SF endemic site in southeastern Brazil, in the municipality of Juiz de Fora, state of Minas Gerais. Genetic analysis based on genes ompA,ompB and htrA showed that the detected strain, named R. amblyommii str. JF, is related to the species R. amblyommii.
authors.affiliation: Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, Juiz de Fora, MG, Brasil.
authors.forename: Emília de Carvalho
authors.initials: Ede C
authors.lastname: Nunes
authors.affiliation: Laboratório de Referência Nacional em Vetores das Riquetsioses, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.
authors.forename: Vinicius Figueiredo
authors.initials: VF
authors.lastname: Vizzoni
authors.affiliation: Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, Juiz de Fora, MG, Brasil.
authors.forename: Daniel Leal
authors.initials: DL
authors.lastname: Navarro
authors.affiliation: Laboratório Central de Minas Gerais, Fundação Ezequiel Dias, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brasil.
authors.forename: Felipe Campos de Melo
authors.initials: FC
authors.lastname: Iani
authors.affiliation: Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, Juiz de Fora, MG, Brasil.
authors.forename: Liliane Silva
authors.initials: LS
authors.lastname: Durães
authors.affiliation: Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, Juiz de Fora, MG, Brasil.
authors.forename: Erik
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Daemon
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Genética, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.
authors.forename: Carlos Augusto Gomes
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Soares
authors.affiliation: Laboratório de Referência Nacional em Vetores das Riquetsioses, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.
authors.forename: Gilberto Salles
authors.initials: GS
authors.lastname: Gazeta
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001096:Arachnid Vectors; D001425:Bacterial Outer Membrane Proteins / Q000235:genetics*; D001938:Brazil / Q000453:epidemiology; D019353:Endemic Diseases; D006801:Humans; D026863:Ixodidae / Q000145:classification / Q000382:microbiology*; D010802:Phylogeny; D012281:Rickettsia / Q000235:genetics; D012282:Rickettsia Infections / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000635:transmission*
chemical_list: D001425:Bacterial Outer Membrane Proteins