TY - JOUR
T1 - Detection of Rickettsia amblyommatis and Rickettsia bellii in ticks collected from pet dogs in peri-urban and rural areas in Yucatan, Mexico
AU - Vázquez-Guerrero, Edwin
AU - Reyes-Solís, Guadalupe C.
AU - Cano-Ravell, Alan E.
AU - Machain-Williams, Carlos
AU - Leyva-Gastélum, Marcia
AU - Estrada-de los Santos, Paulina
AU - Álvarez-Hernández, Gerardo
AU - Ibarra, J. Antonio
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
PY - 2023/8
Y1 - 2023/8
N2 - Rickettsia species are bacteria that may cause multiple diseases in animals and humans, via transmission through multiple arthropod vectors. Routine surveillance of Rickettsia spp. within vectors is critical to determine their presence and risk to mammalian hosts within human populations. Therefore, to better characterize the circulating Rickettsia species in an understudied region we targeted pet dogs to survey. Ticks were collected from pet dogs in three populations of the Yucatan where we tested for the presence of Rickettsia spp. by PCR in metagenomic DNA. In these ticks removed from pet dogs we detected Rickettsia amblyommatis and Rickettsia bellii in Amblyomma auriculatum, Amblyomma ovale and Amblyomma mixtum ticks obtained in a rural community in the Mexican state of Yucatan. This is the first report detecting both species for this state in Mexico, underpinning the importance of more routine surveillance.
AB - Rickettsia species are bacteria that may cause multiple diseases in animals and humans, via transmission through multiple arthropod vectors. Routine surveillance of Rickettsia spp. within vectors is critical to determine their presence and risk to mammalian hosts within human populations. Therefore, to better characterize the circulating Rickettsia species in an understudied region we targeted pet dogs to survey. Ticks were collected from pet dogs in three populations of the Yucatan where we tested for the presence of Rickettsia spp. by PCR in metagenomic DNA. In these ticks removed from pet dogs we detected Rickettsia amblyommatis and Rickettsia bellii in Amblyomma auriculatum, Amblyomma ovale and Amblyomma mixtum ticks obtained in a rural community in the Mexican state of Yucatan. This is the first report detecting both species for this state in Mexico, underpinning the importance of more routine surveillance.
KW - Amblyomma
KW - Pet dogs
KW - Rickettsia spp
KW - Surveilling systems
KW - Ticks
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U2 - 10.1007/s10493-023-00825-z
DO - 10.1007/s10493-023-00825-z
M3 - Artículo
C2 - 37498401
AN - SCOPUS:85165930159
SN - 0168-8162
VL - 90
SP - 441
EP - 453
JO - Experimental and Applied Acarology
JF - Experimental and Applied Acarology
IS - 3-4
ER -