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JOURNAL OF MEDICAL ENTOMOLOGY
Volume 53, Issue 3, Pages 696-698Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC
DOI: 10.1093/jme/tjv240
Keywords
Africa; Amblyomma; Caribbean; Ehrlichia; tick
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- Ross University School of Veterinary Medicine
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
- USDA NIFA TSTAR program [2010-34135-21018]
- NSF grant [DEB-NSF 1026146]
- CDC/University of Georgia (UGA) [8212]
- Joseph W. Jones Ecological Research Center
- Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources (UGA)
- Southeastern Cooperative Wildlife Disease Study (SCWDS) (UGA) through the Federal Aid to Wildlife Restoration Act [50 Stat. 917]
- Southeastern Cooperative Wildlife Disease Study (SCWDS) (UGA) through the SCWDS sponsorship
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Panola Mountain Ehrlichia (PME) has been suggested as an emerging pathogen of humans and dogs. Domestic goats and white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) are also susceptible and likely serve as reservoirs. Experimentally, both the lone star tick (Amblyomma americanum (L.)) and the Gulf Coast tick (Amblyomma maculatum Koch) can transmit PME among deer and goats. In the current study, we detected PME in adult wild-caught A. maculatum from the United States and Amblyomma variegatum (F.) from the Caribbean and Africa. This significantly expands the range, potential tick vectors, and risk for exposure to PME.
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