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- Title
Spotted Fever Group Rickettsial Infection in Dogs from Eastern Arizona.
- Authors
NICHOLSON, WILLIAM L.; GORDON, RONDEEN; DEMMA, LINDA J.
- Abstract
A serosurvey of free-roaming dogs for antibodies to spotted fever group rickettsiae was conducted using archival samples that had been collected in the White Mountain region of eastern Arizona during a plague study in 1996. Immunoglobulin G antibodies to Rickettsia rickettsii (5.1%) and to R. rhipicephali (3.6%) were demonstrated, and no cross-reactive samples were identified. This study indicates that R. rickettsii was likely present in the dog populations in this area prior to the recognition of human cases of Rocky Mountain spotted fever (RMSF). The role of dogs as short-term reservoirs and primary hosts for the vector tick, Rhipicephalus sanguineus, should receive closer attention.
- Subjects
ARIZONA; RICKETTSIAL diseases in animals; SEROLOGY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; POLYMERASE chain reaction; EPIDEMIOLOGY; DOGS as carriers of disease; TICK-borne diseases
- Publication
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 2006, Vol 1078, Issue 1, p519
- ISSN
0077-8923
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1196/annals.1374.102