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Ticks and rickettsiae from wildlife in Belize, Central America
BACKGROUND: The agents of spotted fevers in Latin America are Rickettsia rickettsii, R. parkeri, Rickettsia sp. strain Atlantic rainforest, and R. massiliae. In Continental Central America, R. rickettsii remains the only known pathogenic tick-borne rickettsia. In the present study, ticks were collec...
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2016
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4736261/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26831147 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13071-016-1348-1 |