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Spotted Fever Group Rickettsiae in Questing Ticks, Central Spain

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  • To the Editor: The number of spotted fever group (SFG) rickettsiae that cause diseases in humans is rapidly increasing [1,2]; infections have been described in ticks and humans in Spain [3,4]

  • The results showed that 27 (18.2%) of the 148 ticks analyzed were positive for Rickettsia spp

  • As previously shown [7,8], multilocus analysis with outer membrane protein A (ompA)-outer membrane protein B (ompB) sequences was highly informative about the Emerging Infectious Diseases

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7. Khongphatthanayothin A, Lertsapcharoen P, Supachokchaiwattana P, Satupan P, Thongchaiprasit K, Poovorawan Y, et al Hepatosplanchnic circulatory dysfunction in acute hepatic infection: the case of dengue hemorrhagic fever. Spotted Fever Group Rickettsiae in Questing Ticks, Central Spain To the Editor: The number of spotted fever group (SFG) rickettsiae that cause diseases in humans is rapidly increasing [1,2]; infections have been described in ticks and humans in Spain [3,4].

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