TY - JOUR
AU - Pagac, Benedict
AU - Miller, Melissa
AU - Mazzei, Meagan
AU - Nielsen, David
AU - Jiang, Ju
AU - Richards, Allen
T1 - Rickettsia parkeri and Rickettsia montanensis, Kentucky and Tennessee, USA
T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal
PY - 2014
VL - 20
IS - 10
SP - 1750
SN - 1080-6059
AB - We found that 14.3% (15/105) of Amblyomma maculatum and 3.3% (10/299) of Dermacentor variabilis ticks collected at 3 high-use military training sites in west-central Kentucky and northern Tennessee, USA, were infected with Rickettsia parkeri and Rickettsia montanensis, respectively. These findings warrant regional increased public health awareness for rickettsial pathogens and disease.
KW - Amblyomma maculatum
KW - Dermacentor variabilis
KW - ticks
KW - Rickettsia parkeri
KW - Rickettsia montanensis
KW - rickettsia
KW - Kentucky
KW - Tennessee
KW - bacteria
KW - military training sites
KW - USA
DO - 10.3201/eid2010.140175
UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/20/10/14-0175_article
ER - End of Reference