Primary isolation of spotted fever group rickettsiae from Amblyomma cooperi collected from Hydrochaeris hydrochaeris in Brazil
oleh: Elba Regina Sampaio de Lemos, Heloísa Helena Barbosa Melles, Sílvia Colombo, Raimundo Diogo Machado, José Rodrigues Coura, Maria Angélica Arpon Guimarães, Selênio R Sanseverino, Aline Moura
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| Diterbitkan: | Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (FIOCRUZ) 1996-06-01 |
Deskripsi
This paper reports the first isolation of a spotted fever group rickettsia from an Amblyomma cooperi ixodid collected from a capybara (Hydrochaeris hydrochaeris) in an endemic area of spotted fever in the County of Pedreira, State of São Paulo, Brazil. Isolation was performed in Vero cell culture and submitted to immunofluorescence, using antibody from Rickettsia rickettsii-positive human serum.