Tick-borne rickettsioses are caused by obligate intracellular bacteria belonging to the
spotted fever group of the genus Rickettsia. These zoonoses are among the oldest known …

Companion vector-borne diseases (CVBDs) are an important threat for pet life, but may also
have an impact on human health, due to their often zoonotic character. The importance and …

Data on genus and infectious by Rickettsia were retrospectively compiled from the critical
review literature regarding all countries in Latin America, Caribbean islands, Portugal and …

Rickettsia parkeri, a spotted fever group (SFG) rickettsia recently found to be pathogenic to
humans, causes an eschar-associated febrile illness. The R. parkeri rickettsiosis, Tidewater …

Migratory birds have the potential to transport exotic vectors and pathogens of human and
animal health importance across vast distances. We systematically examined birds that …

Ticks collected in the last two decades from free-living and captive wild animals from 28
municipalities of the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso were identified and tested using …

RESEARCH both pathogens are maintained in blacklegged tick (Ixodes scapularis)–rodent
cycles (14, 15). We investigated the role of birds in the urban ecology of tick-borne zoonotic …

The bacterium Rickettsia parkeri has been reported to infect ticks of the “Amblyomma
maculatum species complex” in the New World, where it causes spotted fever illness in …

Until recently, Amblyomma maculatum (the Gulf Coast tick) had garnered little attention
compared to other species of human-biting ticks in the United States. A. maculatum is now …

Birds are important in the maintenance and spread of ticks and tick-borne diseases. In this
context we screened birds in the Atlantic forest north of the São Francisco River and …