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Am. J. Trop. Med. Hyg., 29(4), 1980, pp. 691-694
Copyright © 1980 by The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

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Spotted Fever Group Rickettsiae in Dermacentor variabilis from Cape Cod, Massachusetts

William C. Feng, Edward S. Murray*, Willy Burgdorfer, Judith M. Spielman, Gail Rosenberg, Kamlesh Dang, Catherine Smith, Charles Spickert AND Joseph L. Waner
Department of Microbiology and Department of Tropical Public Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, and U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service, National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology Branch, Rocky Mountain Laboratory, Hamilton, Montana 59840

Spotted fever group (SFG) rickettsiae were identified by indirect immunofluorescent antibody tests in 1.1% of 6,956 specimens of Dermacentor variabilis collected on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Forty-one of 45 rickettsial isolates were serotyped as Rickettsia montana, one as Rickettsia rickettsii, and three were unidentified. Studies of canines and humans with clinical evidence of spotted fever, and of healthy dogs with antibody to SFG rickettsiae, indicated that exposure of the canine population to R. montana was common but that R. montana was not involved in the etiology of spotted fever.

Accepted for publication October 13, 1979.


* Deceased.




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