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Applied and Environmental Microbiology, January 2007, p. 334-336, Vol. 73, No. 1
0099-2240/07/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/AEM.02009-06
Copyright © 2007, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

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Highly Prevalent Coxiella sp. Bacterium in the Tick Vector Amblyomma americanum{triangledown}

Algimantas Jasinskas, Jianmin Zhong,{dagger} and Alan G. Barbour*

Departments of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Medicine, and Community and Environmental Medicine, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California

Received 23 August 2006/ Accepted 20 October 2006

Laboratory-reared and field-collected Amblyomma americanum ticks were hosts of a Coxiella sp. and a Rickettsia sp. While the Coxiella sp. was detected in 50 of 50 field-collected ticks, the Rickettsia sp. was absent from 32% of ticks. The Coxiella sp. showed evidence of a reduced genome and may be an obligate endosymbiont.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: University of California Irvine, Pacific-Southwest Center, 3012 Hewitt, Irvine, CA 92697-4028. Phone: (949) 824-5626. Fax: (949) 824-6452. E-mail: abarbour{at}uci.edu.

{triangledown} Published ahead of print on 3 November 2006.

{dagger} Present address: Department of Biological Sciences, Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA 95521.

Applied and Environmental Microbiology, January 2007, p. 334-336, Vol. 73, No. 1
0099-2240/07/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/AEM.02009-06
Copyright © 2007, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.



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