Evidence of rickettsial disease agents in ticks from Ethiopian cattle.

摘要: Abstract Evidence has recently been accumulating that domestic animals may play an ancillary role in rickettsial zoonoses. In particular, attention focused on the activity of Rickettsia prowazekii Egyptian and Ethiopian livestock their ticks. An attempt now made to confirm previous findings R. sera zebus, sheep goats Ethiopia, which brought epidemic typhus into category a zoonosis. This was not successful, but tests did indicate some ticks were infected with conori (boutonneuse fever or tick-borne typhus) Coxiella burneti (Q fever), this being first evidence for existence these agents Ethiopia. Antibodies against found significant numbers from one locality, Q-fever antibodies surprisingly rare.