| Literature DB >> 16481535 |
Aaron Medina-Sanchez1, Donald H Bouyer, Virginia Alcantara-Rodriguez, Claudio Mafra, Jorge Zavala-Castro, Ted Whitworth, Vsevolod L Popov, Ildefonso Fernandez-Salas, David H Walker.
Abstract
The state of Nuevo Leon, Mexico has had outbreaks of typhus group rickettsiosis, most recently recognized in 1997. Evaluation of the sera of 345 patients with a dengue-like illness revealed that 25.5% had antibodies reactive with typhus group rickettsiae and 16% had antibodies to Rickettsia parkeri. Rickettsiae were detected by PCR and shell-vial isolations in the field-collected Amblyomma ticks. Molecular characterization by DNA sequence analysis of the gltA, ompB, and 17-kDa gene identified the organisms to be R. prowazekii.Entities:
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Year: 2005 PMID： 16481535 DOI： 10.1196/annals.1355.052
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Ann N Y Acad Sci ISSN： 0077-8923 Impact factor: 5.691