Volume 17, Number 5—May 2011
Dispatch
Rickettsia rickettsii Transmission by a Lone Star Tick, North Carolina
Edward B. Breitschwerdt
, Barbara C. Hegarty, Ricardo G. Maggi, Paul M. Lantos, Denise M. Aslett, and Julie M. Bradley
, Barbara C. Hegarty, Ricardo G. Maggi, Paul M. Lantos, Denise M. Aslett, and Julie M. BradleyTable
Sequence similarities for the ompA and 17-kDa genes from Rickettsia spp. amplified and sequenced from the patient’s blood and from the Amblyomma americanum tick, North Carolina, 2010*
| Characteristic |
ompA |
17-kDa |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| R. rickettsii |
R. parkeri |
R. amblyommii |
R. rickettsii |
R. parkeri |
R. parkeri |
R. amblyommii |
R. amblyommii |
||
| GenBank no. | DQ002504 | U43802 | AY062007 | AY281069 | EF102237 | U17008 | AY375162 | U11013 | |
| Tick sequence
similarities, bp |
180/180 |
171/180 |
159/180 |
502/502 |
496/497 |
486/489 |
480/490 |
479/489 |
|
| Patient sequence similarities, bp | 176/176 | 159/180 | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | |
*ompA, outer membrane protein A gene; NA, amplicon not obtained from patient’s blood sample for sequence comparison.
