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Identification of Rickettsia felis DNA in the blood of domestic cats and dogs in the USA

BACKGROUND: The main vector and reservoir host of Rickettsia felis, an emerging human pathogen causing flea-borne spotted fever, is the cat flea Ctenocephalides felis. While cats have not been found to be infected with the organism, significant percentages of dogs from Australia and Africa are infec...

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Autores principales: Hoque, Md Monirul, Barua, Subarna, Kelly, Patrick John, Chenoweth, Kelly, Kaltenboeck, Bernhard, Wang, Chengming
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7672164/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33208186
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13071-020-04464-w