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- Title
Prevalence of Rickettsia felis in the Fleas Ctenocephalides felis felis and Ctenocephalides canis from Two Indian Villages in São Paulo Municipality, Brazil.
- Authors
HORTA, MAURICIO C.; CHIEBAO, DANIELA P.; De SOUZA, DANIELE B.; FERREIRA, FERNANDO; PINHEIRO, SÔNIA R.; LABRUNA, MACELO B.; SCHUMAKER, TERESINHA T.S.
- Abstract
We evaluated the presence of Rickettsia infection among fleas collected on domestic dogs in two Guarani Indian communities in the suburban area of São Paulo Municipality, Brazil. A total of 114 Ctenocephalides felis felis and 47 Ctenocephalides canis were collected from 40 dogs. A total of 41 C. felis felis (36.0%) and 9 C. canis (19.1%) fleas yielded expected bands by PCR, which were all shown by DNA sequencing to be indentical to the corresponding sequence of a fragment of the Rickettsia felis gltA gene deposited in GenBank. The overall prevalence of R. felis was 31.0% (49/161).
- Subjects
BRAZIL; RICKETTSIAL diseases in animals; TICK-borne diseases; DOG diseases; DIAGNOSTIC use of polymerase chain reaction; NUCLEOTIDE sequence
- Publication
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 2006, Vol 1078, Issue 1, p361
- ISSN
0077-8923
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1196/annals.1374.071