Rickettsia Species Infecting Amblyomma cooperi Ticks from an Area in the State of São Paulo, Brazil, Where Brazilian Spotted Fever Is Endemic

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 90-98

  Labruna, Marcelo B ^a,b   Whitworth, Ted ^a   Horta, Maurício C ^b   Bouyer, Donald H ^a   McBride, Jere W ^a   Pinter, Adriano ^a   Popov, Vsevolod ^a   Gennari, Solange M ^b   Walker, David H ^a  

^a University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMBLYOMMA; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BRAZILIAN SPOTTED FEVER; DISEASE CARRIER; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RICKETTSIA BELLII; RICKETTSIOSIS; VERO CELL;

ANIMALS; BRAZIL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; PHYLOGENY; RICKETTSIA; ROCKY MOUNTAIN SPOTTED FEVER; TICKS;

ACARI; AMBLYOMMA; ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA AFRICAE; RICKETTSIA BELLII; RICKETTSIA PARKERI; RICKETTSIA RICKETTSII; RICKETTSIA SIBIRICA; RICKETTSIALES; SPOTTED FEVER GROUP;

EID: 0347093294     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.42.1.90-98.2004     Document Type: Article

References (32)

1. Bouyer, D. H., J. Stenos, P. C. Valdes, C. G. Moron, V. L. Popov, J. E. Zavala-Velazquez, L. D. Foil, D. R. Stothard, A. F. Azad, and D. H. Walker. 2001. Rickettsia felis: molecular characterization of a new member of the spotted fever group. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 51:339-347.
2. Burgdorfer, W. 1970. The hemolymph test. Am. J. Trop. Med. Hyg. 19:1010-1014.
3. Burgdorfer, W. 1988. Ecological and epidemiological considerations of Rocky Mountain spotted fever and scrub typhus, p. 33-50. In D. H. Walker (ed.), Biology of rickettsial diseases, vol. 1. CRC, Inc., Boca Raton, Fla.
4. Cory, J., C. E. Yunker, J. A. Howarth, Y. Hokama, L. E. Hughes, L. A. Thomas, and C. M. Clifford. 1975. Isolation of spotted fever group and Wolbachia-like agents from field-collected materials by means of plaque formation in mammalian and mosquito cells. Acta Virol. 19:443-445.
5. Davis, G. E., and R. R. Parker. 1933. Additional studies on the relationship of the viruses of Rocky Mountain spotted fever and Sao Paulo exanthematic typhus. Pub. Health Rep. 48:1006-1011.
6. Dias, E., and A. V. Martins. 1939. Spotted fever in Brazil. Am. J. Trop. Med. 19:103-108.
7. Eremeeva, M. E., R. M. Klemt, L. A. Santucci-Domotor, D. J. Silverman, and G. A. Dasch. 2003. Genetic analysis of isolates of Rickettsia rickettsii that differ in virulence. Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci. 990:717-722.
8. Giménez, D. F. 1964. Staining rickettsiae in yolk-sac cultures. Stain Technol. 39:135-140.
9. Gomes, L. S. 1933. Typho exanthematico de São Paulo. Brasil-Medico 17:919-921.
10. Hechemy, K. E., T. Avsic-Zupanc, J. E. Childs, and D. A. Raoult. 2003. Rickettsiology: present and future directions: preface. Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci. 990:xvii-xx.
11. Horta, M. C. 2002. Pesquisa de infecção por riquétsias do grupo da febre maculosa em humanos, eqüideos, caninos e em diferentes estádios de vida do Amblyomma cajennense, provenientes de uma área endêmica do Estado de São Paulo. M.S. dissertation. University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
12. Ito, S., and Y. Rikihisa. 1981. Techniques for electron microscopy of rickettsiae, p. 213-227. In W. Burgdorfer and R. L. Anacker (ed.), Rickettsiae and rickettsial diseases. Academic Press, New York, N.Y.
13. Kelly, J. P., D. Raoult, and P. R. Mason. 1991. Isolation of spotted fever group rickettsiae from triturated ticks using a modification of the centrifugation vial technique. Trans. R. Soc. Trop. Med. Hyg. 85:397-398.
14. Labruna, M. B., C. E. Kerber, F. Ferreira, J. L. H. Faccini, D. T. De Waal, and S. M. Gennari. 2001. Risk factors to tick infestations and their occurrence on horses in the State of São Paulo, Brazil. Vet. Parasitol. 97:1-14.
15. Lemos, E. R., F. B. Alvarenga, M. L. Cintra, M. C. Ramos, C. D. Paddock, T. Ferebee, S. R. Zaki, F. C. Ferreira, R. C. Ravagnani, R. D. Machado, M. A. Guimarães, and J. R. Coura. 2001. Spotted fever in Brazil: a seroepidemiological study and description of clinical cases in an endemic area in the state of São Paulo. Am. J. Trop. Med. Hyg. 65:329-334.
16. Lemos, E. R. S., H. H. B. Melles, S. Colombo, R. D. Machado, J. R. Coura, M. A. A. Guimarães, S. R. Sanseverino, and A. Moura. 1996. Primary isolation of spotted fever group rickettsiae from Amblyomma cooperi collected from Hydrochaeris hydrochaeris in Brazil. Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz 91:273-275.
17. Macaluso, K. R., D. E. Sonenshine, S. M. Ceraul, and A. F. Azad, 2002. Rickettsial infection in Dermacentor variabilis (Acari: Ixodidae) inhibits transovarial transmission of a second rickettsia. J. Med. Entomol. 39:808-813.
18. Monteiro, J. L. 1933. Vacina contra o typho exantematico de S. Paulo. Mem. Inst. Butantãn 8:11-20.
19. Monteiro, J. L. 1933. Comportamento experimental do virus do typho exantematico de S. Paulo apos passagem pelo carrapato (Amblyomma cajennense). Mem. Inst. Butantãn 8:23-37.
20. Philip, R. N., and E. A. Casper. 1981. Serotypes of spotted fever group rickettsiae isolated from Dermacentor andersoni (Stiles) ticks in Western Montana. Am. J. Trop. Med. Hyg. 30:230-238.
21. Philip, R. N., E. A. Casper, W. Burgdorfer, R. K. Gerloff, L. E. Hughes, and E. J. Bell. 1978. Serologic typing of rickettsiae of the spotted fever group by microimmunofluorescence. J. Immunol. 121:1961-1968.
22. Philip, R. N., E. A. Casper, R. L. Anacker, J. Cory, S. F. Hayes, W. Burgdorfer, and E. Yunker. 1983. Rickettsia bellii sp. nov.: a tick-borne rickettsia, widely distributed in the USA, that is distinct from the spotted fever and typhus biogroups. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 33:94-106.
23. Raoult, D., and G. A. Dasch. 1989. Line blot and Western blot immunoassays for diagnosis of Mediterranean spotted fever. J. Clin. Microbiol. 27:2073-2079.
24. Regnery, R. L., C. L. Spruill, and B. D. Plikaytis. 1991. Genotypic identification of rickettsiae and estimation of intraspecies sequence divergence for portions of two rickettsial genes. J. Bacteriol. 173:1576-1589.
25. Roux, V., E. Rydkina, M. Eremeeva, and D. Raoult. 1997. Citrate synthase gene comparison, a new tool for phylogenetic analysis and its application for the rickettsiae. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 47:252-261.
26. Stafford, K. C., III, A. J. Denicola, and L. A. Magnarelli. 1996. Presence of Ixodiphagus hookeri (Hymenoptera: Encyrtidae) in two Connecticut populations of Ixodes scapularis (Acari: Ixodidae). J. Med. Entomol. 33:183-188.
27. Stenos, J., and D. H. Walker. 2000. The rickettsial outer-membrane protein A and B genes of Rickettsia australis, the most divergent rickettsia of the spotted fever group. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 50:1775-1779.
28. Stevens, L., R. Giordano, and R. F. Fialho. 2001. Male-killing, nematode infections, bacteriophage infection, and virulence of cytoplasmic bacteria in the genus Wolbachia. Annu. Rev. Ecol. Syst. 32:519-545.
29. Swofford, D. L. 1999. PAUP: phylogenetic analysis using parsimony, version 4.0 β1. Center for Agriculture and Bioscience International, Champaign, Ill.
30. Travassos, J., and A. Vallejo. 1942. Comportamento de alguns cavídeos (Cavia aperea e Hydrochoerus capybara) às inoculações experimentais do vírus da febre maculosa. Possibilidade desses cavídeos representarem o papel de depositários transitórios do vírus na natureza. Mem. Inst. Butantãn 15:73-86.
31. Travassos, J. and A. Vallejo. 1942. Possibilidade de Amblyomma cajennense se infectar em Hydrochoerus capybara experimentalmente inoculado com o vírus da febre maculosa. Mem. Inst. Butantãn 15:87-90.
32. Webb, L., C. Mitchell, D. C. Malloy, G. A. Dasch, and A. F. Azad. 1990. Detection of murine typhus infection in fleas by using the polymerase chain reaction. J. Clin. Microbiol. 28:530-534.