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- Title
Rickettsiales in Ticks Removed from Outdoor Workers, Southwest Georgia and Northwest Florida, USA.
- Authors
Gleim, Elizabeth R.; Conner, L. Mike; Zemtsova, Galina E.; Levin, Michael L.; Pamela Wong; Pfaff, Madeleine A.; Yabsley, Michael J.; Wong, Pamela
- Abstract
We determined the prevalence of selected Rickettsiales in 362 ticks removed from outdoor workers in southwest Georgia and northwest Florida, USA. Persons submitted an average of 1.1 ticks/month. We found Ehrlichia chaffeensis in an Amblyomma maculatum tick, and Panola Mountain Ehrlichia sp. in 2 A. maculatum ticks and 1 Dermacentor variabilis tick.
- Subjects
FLORIDA; UNITED States; GEORGIA; TICKS; EHRLICHIA; EMPLOYEES; DERMACENTOR
- Publication
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2019, Vol 25, Issue 5, p1019
- ISSN
1080-6040
- Publication type
letter
- DOI
10.3201/eid2505.180438