Abstract
<i>Rickettsia africae</i>, Western Africa
Highlights
African tick-bite fever is a neglected disease that has been mainly detected in tourists who were bitten by a tick while traveling in diseaseendemic areas [2]
R. africae and African tick-bite fever have not previously been reported in Senegal, and few positive human serum samples have been documented in western Africa
Adult ticks (n = 492) were collected from domestic animals; 85 (17.3%) were A. variegatum, and 74 (87.1%) were positive for rickettsial genes according to real-time PCR
Summary
Author affiliations: Ross University School of Veterinary Medicine, St. Kitts, West Indies 1. Matthewman L, Kelly P, Hayter D, Downie S, Wray K, Bryson N, et al Domestic cats as indicators of the presence of spotted fever and typhus group rickettsiae. Rickettsia felis as emergent global threat for humans. 6. Bitam I, Parola P, De La Cruz KD, Matsumoto K, Baziz B, Rolain JM, et al First molecular detection of Rickettsia felis in fleas from Algeria.
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