Rickettsia rickettsii Co-feeding Transmission among Amblyomma aureolatum Ticks

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• Alternative Title:
  Emerg Infect Dis
• Personal Author:
  Moraes-Filho, Jonas ; Costa, Francisco B. ; Gerardi, Monize ; Soares, Herbert S. ; Labruna, Marcelo B.
• Description:
  Amblyomma aureolatum ticks are vectors of Rickettsia rickettsii, the etiologic agent of Rocky Mountain spotted fever in Brazil. Maintenance of R. rickettsii in nature depends on horizontal transmission along tick generations. Although such transmission is known to occur when uninfected and infected ticks feed simultaneously on susceptible animals (co-feeding systemic transmission), we investigated co-feeding nonsystemic transmission, which was based on R. rickettsii-infected and -uninfected A. aureolatum ticks feeding simultaneously on guinea pigs immune to R. rickettsii. Our acquisition and transmission infestations demonstrated that horizontal transmission of R. rickettsii by co-feeding ticks on immune hosts with no systemic infection did not occur when uninfected larvae fed distantly from infected nymphs but did occur in a few cases when uninfected larvae fed side-by-side with infected nymphs, suggesting that they shared the same feeding site. The co-feeding nonsystemic transmission type might have no epidemiologic importance for Rocky Mountain spotted fever.
• Subjects:
  Amblyomma Aureolatum Bacteria Co-Feeding Guinea Pigs Rickettsia Rickettsii Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever Ticks Vector-Borne Infections
• Source:
  Emerg Infect Dis. 24(11):2041-2048
• Pubmed ID:
  30334709
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC6200015
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Brazil
• Volume:
  24
• Issue:
  11
• Collection(s):
  Emerging Infectious Diseases
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:7b5dbb6eedeaed68d6fd4363926b0b17ba18e12cd27a1cdc7c90ad053684c74a
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/60392/cdc_60392_DS1.pdf
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