%0 Journal Article
%T Ticks and rickettsiae from wildlife in Belize, Central America
%A Arlei Marcili
%A Bart J Harmsen
%A Emma Sanchez
%A Howard Quigley
%A Joares May Junior
%A Marcelo B. Labruna
%A Marcos G. Lopes
%A Rebecca J Foster
%A Thiago F. Martins
%J Archive of "Parasites & Vectors".
%D 2016
%R 10.1186/s13071-016-1348-1
%X The agents of spotted fevers in Latin America are Rickettsia rickettsii, R. parkeri, Rickettsia sp. strain Atlantic rainforest, and R. massiliae. In Continental Central America, R. rickettsii remains the only known pathogenic tick-borne rickettsia. In the present study, ticks were collected from wild mammals in natural areas of Belize. Besides providing new data of ticks from Belize, we investigated rickettsial infection in some of these ticks. Our results provide ticks harboring rickettsial agents for the first time in Central America
%K Amblyomma ovale
%K Amblyomma pacae
%K Amblyomma oblongoguttatum
%K Ixodes affinis
%K Rickettsia
%K Wild animals
%K Central America
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4736261/