TY  - JOUR
JF  - Acarologia
T1  - Detection of Rickettsia aeschlimannii and Rickettsia sibirica mongolitimonae in Hyalomma marginatum (Acari: Ixodidae) ticks from Turkey
VL  - 56
IS  - 4
SP  - 533
EP  - 536
PY  - 2016
SN  - 0044-586X
SN  - 2107-7207
PB  - Les Amis d'Acarologia
AU  - Keskin, A.
AU  - Bursali, A.
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1051/acarologia/20164140
DO  - 10.1051/acarologia/20164140
DA  - 2016-10-07
ET  - 2016-10-07
KW  - Hyalomma marginatum, Lymphangitis-associated rickettsioses, Rickettsia aeschlimannii, Rickettsia sibirica mongolitimonae, PCR
AB  - A total of 784 (626 females, 158 males) Hyalomma marginatum Koch, 1844 ticks collected from humans in Turkey were tested for the presence of spotted fever group rickettsiae using polymerase chain reaction (PCR) targeting the citrate synthase (gltA= 381 bp) and the outer membrane protein A (ompA= 532 bp) genes, followed by sequencing analysis. Of the ticks tested, 39 were infected by Rickettsia aeschlimannii while 2 were infected by Rickettsia sibirica mongolitimonae. To our knowledge, this is the first report of R. sibirica mongolitimonae in H. marginatum ticks.
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