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EMERGING INFECTIOUS DISEASES
Volume 17, Issue 5, Pages 873-875Publisher
CENTERS DISEASE CONTROL
DOI: 10.3201/eid1705.101530
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Only indirect or circumstantial evidence has been published to support transmission of Rickettsia rickettsii by Amblyomma americanum (lone star) ticks in North America. This study provides molecular evidence that A. americanum ticks can function, although most likely infrequently, as vectors of Rocky Mountain spotted fever for humans.
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