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SUBMITTER: Mardosaite-Busaitiene D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5857161 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Mardosaitė-Busaitienė D D Radzijevskaja J J Balčiauskas L L Paulauskas A A
New microbes and new infections 20180106
A total of 489 small mammals belonging to seven species captured in Lithuania during 2013-2014 were investigated for <i>Rickettsia</i> pathogens. The overall prevalence of <i>Rickettsia</i> spp. was 27.6%, with a higher prevalence detected in <i>Micromys minutus</i> (45.9%), followed by <i>Apodemus flavicollis</i> (29.4%), <i>Sorex araneus</i> (25%) and <i>Myodes glareolus</i> (23.7%). Sequence analysis of the <i>gltA</i> gene and the 17 kDa protein coding gene revealed the presence <i>Rickettsi ...[more]