Spotted Fever and Typhus Group Rickettsiae in Dogs and Humans, Mexico, 2022
Ricardo Palacios-Santana
1, Lihua Wei
1, Nadia A. Fernandez-Santos
1, Mario A. Rodriguez-Perez
1, Sergio Uriegas-Camargo, Nicole L. Mendell, Donald H. Bouyer
, and Jose Guillermo Estrada-Franco
Author affiliations: Instituto Politecnico Nacional, Centro de Biotecnologia Genomica Nacional, Reynosa, Mexico (R. Palacios-Santana, L. Wei, N.A. Fernandez-Santos, M.A. Rodriguez-Perez, J.G. Estrada-Franco); Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA (N.A. Fernandez-Santos); Secretaria de Salud de Tamaulipas, Ciudad Victoria, Mexico (S. Uriegas-Camargo); University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, USA (N.L. Mendell, D.H. Bouyer)
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Figure. Sampling locations for study of spotted fever and typhus group rickettsiae in dogs and humans, in Reynosa, Mexico, 2022. Primary maps show location of Reynosa along the Mexico–United States border; neighborhoods sampled (A–F) are labeled and enlarged in the satellite images. Primary maps generated using QGIS 3.28.2 (https://www.qgis.org). Free geographic data of administrative areas of Mexico was downloaded from the National Institute of Statistics and Geography, Mexico (INEGI, https://www.inegi.org.mx/app/mapas). Satellite images and street maps were obtained from Google Maps (https://www.google.com/maps).
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