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Volume 12, Number 7—July 2006
Research

Rickettsia sibirica Isolation from a Patient and Detection in Ticks, Portugal

Rita de Sousa*Comments to Author , Conceição Barata†, Liliana Vitorino‡, Margarida Santos-Silva*, Carlos Carrapato§, Jorge Torgal¶, David Walker#, and Fátima Bacellar*
Author affiliations: *Instituto Nacional de Saúde Dr Ricardo Jorge, Águas de Moura, Portugal; †Hospital do Espírito Santo-Évora, Évora, Portugal; ‡Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal; §Instituto da Conservação da Natureza, Mértola, Portugal; ¶Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal; #University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, USA

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Table 2

Number of Hyalomma lusitanicum and Dermacentor marginatus collected in the Alentejo region and identified rickettsiae

Month/
site Origin Tick species (no., sex)* Identified rickettsia
March
Mourão Vegetation H. lusitanicum (10F; 6M) –
April
Mértola Vegetation D. marginatus (2F; 3M) –
May
Mértola Vegetation H. lusitanicum (23F; 15M) –
Cow H. lusitanicum (1F; 3M) –
Sheep H. lusitanicum (2M) –
Vegetation D. marginatus (6F) Rickettsia sp. RpA4

*F, female; M, male.

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