Departamento de Medicina Veterinária Preventiva e Saúde Animal, Faculdade de Medicina Veterinária e Zootecnia, Universidade de São Paulo, Brasil.
Pathog Glob Health. 2012 Jul;106(3):188-9. doi: 10.1179/2047773212Y.0000000022.
Four Amblyomma sabanerae ticks collected from a turtle (Kinosternon sp.) in San Miguel, El Salvador, were found by molecular analysis to be infected by Rickettsia bellii. We provide the first report of Rickettsia bellii in Central America, and the first report of a Rickettsia species in El Salvador.
通过分子分析,从萨尔瓦多圣米格尔一只龟(Kinosternon sp.)身上采集的四只扁虱(Amblyomma sabanerae)被发现感染了贝氏立克次体。我们首次在中美洲报告了贝氏立克次体,并首次在萨尔瓦多报告了一种立克次体物种。