Prevalence of Rickettsia felis in the Fleas Ctenocephalides felis felis and Ctenocephalides canis from Two Indian Villages in São Paulo Municipality, Brazil

Prevalence of Rickettsia felis in the Fleas Ctenocephalides felis felis and Ctenocephalides canis from Two Indian Villages in São Paulo Municipality, Brazil

:  We evaluated the presence of Rickettsia infection among fleas collected on domestic dogs in two Guarani Indian communities in the suburban area of São Paulo Municipality, Brazil. A total of 114 Ctenocephalides felis felis and 47 Ctenocephalides canis were collected from 40 dogs. A total of 41 C....

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Published in:Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences Vol. 1078; no. 1; pp. 361 - 363
Main Authors: HORTA, MAURICIO C., CHIEBAO, DANIELA P., De SOUZA, DANIELE B., FERREIRA, FERNANDO, PINHEIRO, SÔNIA R., LABRUNA, MACELO B., SCHUMAKER, TERESINHA T.S.
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Malden, USA Blackwell Publishing Inc 01-10-2006
Subjects:
Animals
Brazil
Canis
Ctenocephalides canis
Ctenocephalides felis felis
dog
Dogs - parasitology
Felis
flea
Humans
Rickettsia
Rickettsia felis
Rickettsia felis - genetics
Rickettsia felis - isolation & purification
Rural Population
Siphonaptera - microbiology
Brazil
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Summary::  We evaluated the presence of Rickettsia infection among fleas collected on domestic dogs in two Guarani Indian communities in the suburban area of São Paulo Municipality, Brazil. A total of 114 Ctenocephalides felis felis and 47 Ctenocephalides canis were collected from 40 dogs. A total of 41 C. felis felis (36.0%) and 9 C. canis (19.1%) fleas yielded expected bands by PCR, which were all shown by DNA sequencing to be indentical to the corresponding sequence of a fragment of the Rickettsia felis gltA gene deposited in GenBank. The overall prevalence of R. felis was 31.0% (49/161).
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ISSN:0077-8923
1749-6632
DOI:10.1196/annals.1374.071