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Highly Prevalent Coxiella sp. Bacterium in the Tick Vector Amblyomma americanum |
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| Authors: | Algimantas Jasinskas Jianmin Zhong Alan G. Barbour |
| Abstract: | Laboratory-reared and field-collected Amblyomma americanum ticks were hosts of a Coxiella sp. and a Rickettsia sp. While the Coxiella sp. was detected in 50 of 50 field-collected ticks, the Rickettsia sp. was absent from 32% of ticks. The Coxiella sp. showed evidence of a reduced genome and may be an obligate endosymbiont. |
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