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SUBMITTER: Vieira RF
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4616923 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jul-Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Vieira Rafael Felipe da Costa RF Vidotto Odilon O Vieira Thállitha Samih Wischral Jayme TS Guimaraes Ana Márcia Sá AM Santos Andrea Pires dos AP Nascimento Naíla Cannes NC Santos Nelson Jesse Rodrigues dos NJ Martins Thiago Fernandes TF Labruna Marcelo Bahia MB Marcondes Mary M Biondo Alexander Welker AW Messick Joanne Belle JB
Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo 20150701 4
The aims of this study were to determine the prevalence of hemoplasmas in a rural Brazilian settlement's population of human beings, their dogs and horses, highly exposed to tick bites; to identify the tick species parasitizing dogs and horses, and analyze factors associated with their infection. Blood samples from 132 dogs, 16 horses and 100 humans were screened using a pan-hemoplasma SYBR green real-time PCR assay followed by a species-specific TaqMan real-time PCR. A total of 59/132 (44.7%) d ...[more]