Table 2.
Species of Rickettsia identified by IFA as possibly responsible for seroreactivity in 12 dogs.
| Province | Sample ID | End-point titer |
Species identification | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| R. rickettsii | R. amblyommatis | R. felis | |||
| San José | C7 | – | 128 | – | R. amblyommatis |
| C25 | 128 | – | – | R. rickettsii | |
| C26 | – | 128 | – | R. amblyommatis | |
| C28 | – | 128 | – | R. amblyommatis | |
| Alajuela | C62 | – | 256 | – | R. amblyommatis |
| C67 | – | 128 | – | R. amblyommatis | |
| C68 | – | 128 | – | R. amblyommatis | |
| C78 | – | 128 | – | R. amblyommatis | |
| Guanacaste | C121 | 256 | – | – | R. rickettsii |
| C137 | – | 128 | – | R. amblyommatis | |
| Cartago | C243 | – | 128 | – | R. amblyommatis |
| C246 | 128 | – | – | R. rickettsii | |
(−): no reaction observed at 1:64 serum dilution.