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Volume 25, Number 12—December 2019
Research Letter

Molecular Confirmation of Rickettsia parkeri in Amblyomma ovale Ticks, Veracruz, Mexico

Sokani Sánchez-Montes, Gerardo G. Ballados-González, Alejandra Hernández-Velasco, Héctor M. Zazueta-Islas, Marlene Solis-Cortés, Haydee Miranda-Ortiz, Julio C. Canseco-Méndez, Edith A. Fernández-Figueroa1, Pablo Colunga-Salas, Andrés M. López-Pérez, Jesús Delgado-de la Mora, Jesús D. Licona-Enriquez, David Delgado-de la Mora, Sandor E. Karpathy, Christopher D. Paddock, and Claudia Rangel-Escareño1Comments to Author 
Author affiliations: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico (S. Sánchez-Montes, H.M. Zazueta-Islas, M. Solis-Cortés, E.A. Fernández-Figueroa, P. Colunga-Salas, A.M. López-Pérez); Universidad Veracruzana, Veracruz, Mexico (G.G. Ballados-González, A. Hernández-Velasco); Instituto Nacional de Medicina Genómica, Mexico City (H. Miranda-Ortiz, J.C. Canseco-Méndez, E.A. Fernández-Figueroa, C. Rangel-Escareño); University of California, Davis, California, USA (A.M. López-Pérez); Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán, Mexico City (J. Delgado-de la Mora); Centro Médico Nacional Siglo XXI, Mexico City (J.D. Licona-Enriquez); Instituto Tecnológico de Sonora, Sonora, Mexico (D. Delgado-de la Mora); Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA (S.E. Karpathy, C.D. Paddock)

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Amblyomma ovale tick sampling sites and phylogenetic analysis of tickborne Rickettsia parkeri strain Atlantic Rainforest isolates (diamonds), state of Veracruz, Mexico, July–August 2018. A) Sites where A. ovale ticks were collected from dogs to assess prevalence of R. parkeri strain Atlantic Rainforest. Inset shows location of Veracruz state in Mexico. QGis (https://www.qgis.org) was used for map construction. B) Maximum-likelihood phylogenetic tree generated with concatenated segments of the gl

Figure. Amblyomma ovale tick sampling sites and phylogenetic analysis of tickborne Rickettsia parkeri strain Atlantic Rainforest isolates (diamonds), state of Veracruz, Mexico, July–August 2018. A) Sites where A. ovale ticks were collected from dogs to assess prevalence of R. parkeri strain Atlantic Rainforest. Inset shows location of Veracruz state in Mexico. QGis (https://www.qgis.org) was used for map construction. B) Maximum-likelihood phylogenetic tree generated with concatenated segments of the gltA, htrA, sca0, and sca5 genes (2,476 bp total) of several members of spotted fever group Rickettsia. Bootstrap values >50 are indicated at nodes. GenBank accession numbers are provided. Scale bar indicates nucleotide substitutions per site.

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1These authors were co–principal investigators.

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