Spotted-Fever Group Rickettsia in Dermacentor variabilis, Maryland

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• Alternative Title:
  Emerg Infect Dis
• Personal Author:
  Ammerman, Nicole C. ; Swanson, Katherine I. ; Anderson, Jennifer M. ; Schwartz, Timothy R. ; Seaberg, Eric C. ; Glass, Gregory E. ; Norris, Douglas E.
• Description:
  Three-hundred ninety-two adult Dermacentor variabilis were collected from six Maryland counties during the spring, summer, and fall of 2002. Infection prevalence for spotted fever group Rickettsia was 3.8%, as determined by polymerase chain reaction. Single strand conformational polymorphism (SSCP) analysis followed by sequencing indicated that all infections represented a single rickettsial taxon, Rickettsia montanensis.
• Subjects:
  Animals Arachnid Vectors Bacterial Outer Membrane Proteins Citrate (si)-Synthase Dermacentor Dispatch Female Humans Male Molecular Sequence Data Polymorphism, Single-Stranded Conformational Rickettsia Sequence Analysis, DNA

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• Source:
  Emerg Infect Dis. 10(8):1478-1481.
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  T32ES07141/ES/NIEHS NIH HHS/United States ; U50/CCU319554/CC/ODCDC CDC HHS/United States
• Place as Subject:
  Maryland
• Location:
  North America
• Volume:
  10
• Issue:
  8
• Collection(s):
  Emerging Infectious Diseases
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:d8a192549f7873f0ab7ea4646efa00a88dcd6623f2a1a33947ddcfd32806781b
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/14524/cdc_14524_DS1.pdf
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