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Article: Rickettsia parkeri in Amblyomma triste from Uruguay.(Dispatches)
- Article from:
- Emerging Infectious Diseases
- Article date:
- August 1, 2004
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Our goal was to detect whether spotted fever group Rickettsia are found in the suspected vector of rickettsioses, Amblyomma triste, in Uruguay. Rickettsia parkeri was detected in A. triste, which suggests that this species could be considered a pathogenic agent responsible for human rickettsioses in Uruguay.
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In South America, cases of rickettsioses produced by the genus Rickettsia have been described in several countries in the last 20 years. The first three native cases of rickettsioses in Uruguay were reported in 1990. Patients had an initial small necrotic lesion (eschar) on the tick-bite point of attachment, fever and regional ...