Dubious presence of Bartonella bacilliformis in ticks from Madre de Dios, Peru

Bartonella bacilliformis has recently been described in Amblyomma scalpturatum, Amblyomma ovale and Rhipicephalus microplus collected from wild animals in the Peruvian region of Madre de Dios. In this communication, I will discuss the results of a recent study by del Valle-Mendoza et al. together wi...

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Autor principal: Ruiz, Joaquim
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6708141/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31443674
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-019-4528-1
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description Bartonella bacilliformis has recently been described in Amblyomma scalpturatum, Amblyomma ovale and Rhipicephalus microplus collected from wild animals in the Peruvian region of Madre de Dios. In this communication, I will discuss the results of a recent study by del Valle-Mendoza et al. together with the B. bacilliformis epidemiology. Following my argumentation, I consider the presence of this microorganism in the above ticks improbable.
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spelling pubmed-67081412019-08-28 Dubious presence of Bartonella bacilliformis in ticks from Madre de Dios, Peru Ruiz, Joaquim BMC Res Notes Correspondence Bartonella bacilliformis has recently been described in Amblyomma scalpturatum, Amblyomma ovale and Rhipicephalus microplus collected from wild animals in the Peruvian region of Madre de Dios. In this communication, I will discuss the results of a recent study by del Valle-Mendoza et al. together with the B. bacilliformis epidemiology. Following my argumentation, I consider the presence of this microorganism in the above ticks improbable. BioMed Central 2019-08-23 /pmc/articles/PMC6708141/ /pubmed/31443674 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-019-4528-1 Text en © The Author(s) 2019 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Dubious presence of Bartonella bacilliformis in ticks from Madre de Dios, Peru
title Dubious presence of Bartonella bacilliformis in ticks from Madre de Dios, Peru
title_full Dubious presence of Bartonella bacilliformis in ticks from Madre de Dios, Peru
title_fullStr Dubious presence of Bartonella bacilliformis in ticks from Madre de Dios, Peru
title_full_unstemmed Dubious presence of Bartonella bacilliformis in ticks from Madre de Dios, Peru
title_short Dubious presence of Bartonella bacilliformis in ticks from Madre de Dios, Peru
title_sort dubious presence of bartonella bacilliformis in ticks from madre de dios, peru
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6708141/
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