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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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Autores principales: Lopes, Marcos G., Junior, Joares May, Foster, Rebecca J, Harmsen, Bart J, Sanchez, Emma, Martins, Thiago F., Quigley, Howard, Marcili, Arlei, Labruna, Marcelo B.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 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

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