Evidence of spotted fever group (SFG) rickettsiae was obtained from flea pools and
individual ticks collected at three sites in northwestern Peru within the focus of an outbreak …

Outbreaks of spotted fevers have been reported in Costa Rica since the 1950s, although
vectors responsible for transmission to humans have not been directly identified. In this …

Our objective was to learn the prevalence of spotted fever group (SFG) Rickettsia detected in
ticks in La Rioja, in the north of Spain. From 2001 to 2005, 496 ticks representing 7 tick …

Five strains of spotted fever group (SFG) rickettsiae previously isolated from human clinical
cases and from the tick Haemaphysalis leporispalustris were used for molecular …

Phylogenetic analysis of five rickettsial genes (17‐kDa gene, gltA, ompB, ompA, and sca4)
from two molecular isolates of Candidatus Rickettsia andeanae from two ticks (Amblyomma …

We report molecular evidence for the presence of spotted fever group rickettsiae (SFGR) in
ticks collected from roe deer, addax, red foxes, and wild boars in Israel. Rickettsia …

A total of 2,229 adults ticks (1,428 males and 801 females) belonging to the brown dog tick,
Rhipicephalus sanguineus Latreille, 1806, collected from dogs in Seville province …

Ticks, including many that bite humans, are hosts to several obligate intracellular bacteria in
the spotted fever group (SFG) of the genus Rickettsia. Only Rickettsia rickettsii, the agent of …

Increasing entomologic and epidemiologic evidence suggests that spotted fever group
rickettsiae (SFGR) other than Rickettsia rickettsii are responsible for spotted fever …

Eighty-nine Rhipicephalus sanguineus ticks and 21 Rhipicephalus bursa ticks collected in
Catalonia were tested by the hemolymph test to establish their infection rate with spotted …