Rickettsia parkeri in Dermacentor parumapertus Ticks, Mexico
Sokani Sánchez-Montes
1, Andrés M. López-Pérez
1 , Carmen Guzmán-Cornejo, Pablo Colunga-Salas, Ingeborg Becker, Jesús Delgado-de la Mora, Jesús D. Licona-Enríquez, David Delgado-de la Mora, Sandor E. Karpathy, Christopher D. Paddock, and Gerardo Suzán
Author affiliations: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico (S. Sánchez-Montes, A.M. López-Pérez, C. Guzmán-Cornejo, P. Colunga-Salas, I. Becker, G. Suzán); Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán, Mexico City (J. Delgado-de la Mora); Universidad de Sonora, Sonora, Mexico (J.D. Licona-Enríquez); Instituto Tecnológico de Sonora, Sonora (D. Delgado-de la Mora); Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA (S.E. Karpathy, C. Paddock)
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Figure 1. Distribution of Rickettsia parkeri. A) Geographic records of R. parkeri in the Americas based on reports from the literature. We used a layer of Google Maps (www.google.com/maps/) for the construction of the figure. B) Area of study of Rickettsia in Mexico. Squares and triangles represent the sites where lagomorphs carrying ticks were captured.
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