Rickettsia parkeri in Argentina.

ABSTRACT: Clinical reports of an eschar-associated rickettsiosis in the Paraná River Delta of Argentina prompted an evaluation of Amblyomma triste ticks in this region. When evaluated by PCR, 17 (7.6%) of 223 questing adult A. triste ticks, collected from 2 sites in the lower Paraná River Delta, contained DNA of Rickettsia parkeri.

SUBMITTER: Nava S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2634642 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature