Volume 8, Number 9, September 2002

Dispatch

First Detection of Spotted Fever Group Rickettsiae in Ixodes ricinus from Italy

Tiziana Beninati,* Nathan Lo,*† Hiroaki Noda,† Fulvio Esposito,‡ Annapaola Rizzoli,§ Guido Favia,‡ and Claudio Genchi*§
*Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy; †National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, Tsukuba, Japan; ‡Università di Camerino, Macerata, Italy; and §Centro di Ecologia Alpina, Trento, Italy

Figure 1. Location of Ixodes ricinus collection sites and detection of spotted fever group rickettsiae. 1; Trentino Province. Dots represent places where ticks were not found to have rickettsiae; different shapes represent the places where IrITA1 (Terlago, Denno, Vervó), IrITA2 (Molina di Ledro, Drena) and IrITA3 (Drena) were detected. In Feltre (2; Veneto Region) only IrITA1 was detected, while in Parco Nazionale delle Foreste Casentinesi (3; Toscana Region) only IrITA2 was detected.

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