ArticleRevista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo
Rickettsia typhi in rodents and R. felis in fleas in Yucatán as a possible causal agent of undefined febrile cases.
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- Detection of Rickettsia amblyommatis and Rickettsia bellii in ticks collected from pet dogs in peri-urban and rural areas in Yucatan, Mexico.Experimental & applied acarology · 2023Article
- Didelphis spp. opossums and their parasites in the Americas: A One Health perspective.Parasitology research · 2021Review
- Historical Spatial Distribution of Zoonotic Diseases in Domestic, Synanthropic, and Wild Animals in the Mexican Territory of the Yucatan Peninsula.Journal of tropical medicine · 2021Article
- Murine typhus in Mexico City: report of an imported case.Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo · 2019Article
- Suspected and Confirmed Vector-Borne Rickettsioses of North America Associated with Human Diseases.Tropical medicine and infectious disease · 2018Review
- Epidemiologic profile and clinical course of four confirmed rickettsiosis cases in Southern Mexico during 2016.Clinical case reports · 2018Article
- Direct evidence ofOpen veterinary journal · 2017Article
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Abstract
Rickettsia typhi is the causal agent of murine typhus; a worldwide zoonotic and vector-borne infectious disease, commonly associated with the presence of domestic and wild rodents. Human cases of murine typhus in the state of Yucatán are frequent. However, there is no evidence of the presence of Rickettsia typhi in mammals or vectors in Yucatán. The presence of Rickettsia in rodents and their ectoparasites was evaluated in a small municipality of Yucatán using the conventional polymerase chain reaction technique and sequencing. The study only identified the presence of Rickettsia typhi in blood samples obtained from Rattus rattus and it reported, for the first time, the presence of R. felis in the flea Polygenis odiosus collected from Ototylomys phyllotis rodent. Additionally, Rickettsia felis was detected in the ectoparasite Ctenocephalides felis fleas parasitizing the wild rodent Peromyscus yucatanicus. This study's results contributed to a better knowledge of Rickettsia epidemiology in Yucatán.
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