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Detection of Rickettsia amblyommatis and Rickettsia bellii in ticks collected from pet dogs in peri-urban and rural areas in Yucatan, Mexico

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Rickettsia species are bacteria that may cause multiple diseases in animals and humans, via transmission through multiple arthropod vectors. Routine surveillance of Rickettsia spp. within vectors is critical to determine their presence and risk to mammalian hosts within human populations. Therefore, to better characterize the circulating Rickettsia species in an understudied region we targeted pet dogs to survey. Ticks were collected from pet dogs in three populations of the Yucatan where we tested for the presence of Rickettsia spp. by PCR in metagenomic DNA. In these ticks removed from pet dogs we detected Rickettsia amblyommatis and Rickettsia bellii in Amblyomma auriculatum, Amblyomma ovale and Amblyomma mixtum ticks obtained in a rural community in the Mexican state of Yucatan. This is the first report detecting both species for this state in Mexico, underpinning the importance of more routine surveillance.

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Acknowledgements

We would like to thank the owners of the dogs and their families for their support and permission to check their beloved pets. We also would like to thank members of our respective laboratories for their invaluable support. Specially to Javier Solís, Jose Hernández, and Sofía Luna (Laboratorio de Genética Microbiana at ENCB), and Martha Guadalupe Zacarias Pérez (Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán). We are also in great debt to both reviewers for all their critical comments and suggestions.

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This work was supported by Secretaría de Investigación y Posgrado del Instituto Politécnico Nacional (SIP-IPN) (grant numbers 2022 − 0679 and 2023 − 0850).

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Conceptualization: JAI, GCR-S, EV-G; Methodology: EV-G, GCR-S, AEC-R, CM-W, ML-G, PE-DLS, GA-H; Formal analysis and investigation: JAI, GCR-S, EV-G, GA-H; Writing - original draft preparation: JAI, EV-G, GCR-S; Funding acquisition: JAI, GCR-S; Resources: EV-G, GCR-S, AEC-R, CM-W, ML-G, PE-DLS, GA-H; Software: PE-DLS; Supervision: JAI, GCR-S, GA-H; Validation: PE-DLS, GA-H, ML-G; Visualization: JAI, GCR-S, EV-G; Writing - review and editing: EV-G, GCR-S, AEC-R, CM-W, ML-G, PE-DLS, GA-H, JAI.

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Vázquez-Guerrero, E., Reyes-Solís, G.C., Cano-Ravell, A.E. et al. Detection of Rickettsia amblyommatis and Rickettsia bellii in ticks collected from pet dogs in peri-urban and rural areas in Yucatan, Mexico. Exp Appl Acarol 90, 441–453 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10493-023-00825-z

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