2017
DOI: 10.1590/s0100-736x2017000600015
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Rickettsia amblyommii associado a roedores e marsupiais nativos da Estação Experimental Rafael Fernandes da UFERSA, Rio Grande do Norte

Abstract: RESUMO: O presente estudo teve como objetivo registrar a ocorrência de Rickettsia sp. em roedores e marsupiais nativos da Estação Experimental Rafael Fernandes da UFERSA, Mossoró/RN. O trabalho consistiu em uma pesquisa de campo, com roedores e marsupiais silvestres, com os dados expressos em frequência simples e porcentagem através do programa estatístico IBM SPSS (Armonk, NY: IBM Corp.), versão 22.0. Coletaram-se amostras de plasma sanguíneo de marsupiais (36) e de roedores (5). Destes, 64 continham Amblyomm… Show more

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“…Rickettsia felis , which is associated with only one case of spotted fever (SF) recorded in Brazil (Raoult et al ., ), is strongly associated with the flea Ctenocephalides felis , which has been recorded in all five regional divisions of the country (Horta et al ., ). It was recently proposed that Rickettsia parkeri sensu stricto , a species known to be pathogenic on the American continent, is associated with SF in southern Brazil (Weck et al ., ), and another species, Rickettsia amblyommatis (= Candidatus Rickettsia amblyommii , Karpathy et al ., 2016), considered to be the bioagent of asymptomatic infection or self‐limiting disease (Fang et al ., ), has been recorded in the north, northeast, southeast and midwest regions of Brazil, although without associated clinical cases (Labruna et al ., , ; Saraiva et al ., ; Lopes et al ., ; McIntosh et al ., ; Nunes et al ., ; Melo et al ., ; Paiva et al ., ).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 97%
“…Rickettsia felis , which is associated with only one case of spotted fever (SF) recorded in Brazil (Raoult et al ., ), is strongly associated with the flea Ctenocephalides felis , which has been recorded in all five regional divisions of the country (Horta et al ., ). It was recently proposed that Rickettsia parkeri sensu stricto , a species known to be pathogenic on the American continent, is associated with SF in southern Brazil (Weck et al ., ), and another species, Rickettsia amblyommatis (= Candidatus Rickettsia amblyommii , Karpathy et al ., 2016), considered to be the bioagent of asymptomatic infection or self‐limiting disease (Fang et al ., ), has been recorded in the north, northeast, southeast and midwest regions of Brazil, although without associated clinical cases (Labruna et al ., , ; Saraiva et al ., ; Lopes et al ., ; McIntosh et al ., ; Nunes et al ., ; Melo et al ., ; Paiva et al ., ).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 97%