Objective: To study the presence of Bartonella bacilliformis in ticks collected from two wild mammals in Madre de Dios, Peru. Results: A total of 110 ticks were collected. Among the 43 Amblyomma spp. extracted from the 3 Tapirus terrestris only 3 were positive for B. bacilliformis. In addition, 12 out of the 67 Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplus obtained from the 3 Pecari tajacu were positive for B. bacilliformis. For the first time B. bacilliformis have been detected in arthropods other than Lutzomyia spp. Further studies are required to elucidate the possible role of ticks in the spread of South American Bartonellosis. / This work was supported by Cienciativa of CONCYTEC Peru, under the contract N° 164‑2016‑FONDECYT. Dr. Lescano is sponsored by the training grant D43 TW007393 awared by the Fogarty International Center of the US National Institutes of Health. / Revisión por pares / Revisión por pares
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:PERUUPC/oai:repositorioacademico.upc.edu.pe:10757/624639 |
| Date | 06 1900 |
| Creators | del Valle-Mendoza, Juana, Rojas-Jaimes, Jesús, Vásquez-Achaya, Fernando, Aguilar-Luis, Miguel Angel, Correa-Nuñez, Germán, Silva-Caso, Wilmer, Lescano, Andrés G., Song, Xiuping, Liu, Qiyong, Li, Dongmei |
| Contributors | juana.delvalle@upc.pe, jesus.rojas.jaimes@gmail.com, fernando.vasquez.achaya@gmail.com, ma23aguilar@gmail.com, biologo.geo@yahoo.com, gian_will@hotmail.com |
| Publisher | BioMed Central Ltd. |
| Source Sets | Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC) |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC), Repositorio Academico - UPC, BMC Research Notes, 11, 1 |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess, Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/ |
| Relation | https://bmcresnotes.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13104-018-3518-z |
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