A story of a lone star tick: an imported case of Amblyomma americanum (Linnaeus, 1758) infected with Rickettsia amblyommatis that parasitized a US traveler returning to Mexico

In this study, we report the presence of a female Amblyomma americanum tick attached to a former resident of the East Coast of the United States who moved to Mexico city. The amplification and sequencing of gene fragments of the 16S-rDNA and cytochrome c oxidase subunit 1 corroborated the identifica...

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Autores principales: Volkow, Patricia, Grostieta, Estefania, Salceda-Sánchez, Beatriz, Huerta-Jiménez, Herón, Alcántara-Rodríguez, Virginia, Becker, Ingeborg, Sánchez-Montes, Sokani
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo 2023
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10243523/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37283412
http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S1678-9946202365037
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author Volkow, Patricia
Grostieta, Estefania
Salceda-Sánchez, Beatriz
Huerta-Jiménez, Herón
Alcántara-Rodríguez, Virginia
Becker, Ingeborg
Sánchez-Montes, Sokani
author_facet Volkow, Patricia
Grostieta, Estefania
Salceda-Sánchez, Beatriz
Huerta-Jiménez, Herón
Alcántara-Rodríguez, Virginia
Becker, Ingeborg
Sánchez-Montes, Sokani
author_sort Volkow, Patricia
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description In this study, we report the presence of a female Amblyomma americanum tick attached to a former resident of the East Coast of the United States who moved to Mexico city. The amplification and sequencing of gene fragments of the 16S-rDNA and cytochrome c oxidase subunit 1 corroborated the identification of the species of the tick. Additionally, the presence of DNA of Rickettsia amblyommatis was confirmed. This work is the first report of an exotic tick of the genus Amblyomma in a traveler from the US to Mexico and represents the second record of an imported tick attached to humans in Mexico.
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spelling pubmed-102435232023-06-07 A story of a lone star tick: an imported case of Amblyomma americanum (Linnaeus, 1758) infected with Rickettsia amblyommatis that parasitized a US traveler returning to Mexico Volkow, Patricia Grostieta, Estefania Salceda-Sánchez, Beatriz Huerta-Jiménez, Herón Alcántara-Rodríguez, Virginia Becker, Ingeborg Sánchez-Montes, Sokani Rev Inst Med Trop Sao Paulo Case Report In this study, we report the presence of a female Amblyomma americanum tick attached to a former resident of the East Coast of the United States who moved to Mexico city. The amplification and sequencing of gene fragments of the 16S-rDNA and cytochrome c oxidase subunit 1 corroborated the identification of the species of the tick. Additionally, the presence of DNA of Rickettsia amblyommatis was confirmed. This work is the first report of an exotic tick of the genus Amblyomma in a traveler from the US to Mexico and represents the second record of an imported tick attached to humans in Mexico. Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo 2023-06-02 /pmc/articles/PMC10243523/ /pubmed/37283412 http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S1678-9946202365037 Text en https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License, which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Case Report
Volkow, Patricia
Grostieta, Estefania
Salceda-Sánchez, Beatriz
Huerta-Jiménez, Herón
Alcántara-Rodríguez, Virginia
Becker, Ingeborg
Sánchez-Montes, Sokani
A story of a lone star tick: an imported case of Amblyomma americanum (Linnaeus, 1758) infected with Rickettsia amblyommatis that parasitized a US traveler returning to Mexico
title A story of a lone star tick: an imported case of Amblyomma americanum (Linnaeus, 1758) infected with Rickettsia amblyommatis that parasitized a US traveler returning to Mexico
title_full A story of a lone star tick: an imported case of Amblyomma americanum (Linnaeus, 1758) infected with Rickettsia amblyommatis that parasitized a US traveler returning to Mexico
title_fullStr A story of a lone star tick: an imported case of Amblyomma americanum (Linnaeus, 1758) infected with Rickettsia amblyommatis that parasitized a US traveler returning to Mexico
title_full_unstemmed A story of a lone star tick: an imported case of Amblyomma americanum (Linnaeus, 1758) infected with Rickettsia amblyommatis that parasitized a US traveler returning to Mexico
title_short A story of a lone star tick: an imported case of Amblyomma americanum (Linnaeus, 1758) infected with Rickettsia amblyommatis that parasitized a US traveler returning to Mexico
title_sort story of a lone star tick: an imported case of amblyomma americanum (linnaeus, 1758) infected with rickettsia amblyommatis that parasitized a us traveler returning to mexico
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10243523/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37283412
http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S1678-9946202365037
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