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Cultivation of Rickettsia amblyommii in tick cells, prevalence in Florida lone star ticks (Amblyomma americanum)

BACKGROUND: Rickettsia amblyommii is a bacterium in the spotted fever group of organisms associated with the lone star tick (LST), Amblyomma americanum. The LST is the most commonly reported tick to parasitize humans in the southeastern US. Within this geographic region, there have been suspected ca...

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Autores principales: Sayler, Katherine A, Wamsley, Heather L, Pate, Melanie, Barbet, Anthony F, Alleman, A Rick
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4077227/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24927809
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1756-3305-7-270