Table 2.
Sequence profiles of the five genes in the 19 Rickettsia genotypes (FG019a–FG019s) identified in this study.
| Ticks Species | Rickettsia MLST genotypes | Genes | n | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| gltA | 16S rDNA | atpA | ompB | coxA | |||
| Ixodidae (hard ticks): | |||||||
| Amblyomma cajennense sensu stricto (Fabricius, 1787) | FG019a | a | a | a | a | a | 13 |
| A. coelebs Neumann, 1899 | FG019b | c | b | b | c | b | 3 |
| A. dissimile Koch, 1884 | FG019c | d | c | c | d | c | 2 |
| FG019d | e | c | c | d | _ | 1 | |
| FG019e | f | d | d | e | _ | 1 | |
| FG019f | g | c | c | d | c | 2 | |
| A. geayi Neumann, 1899 | FG019c | d | c | c | d | c | 1 |
| A. goeldii Neumann, 1899 | FG019g | d | f | e | f | d | 1 |
| FG019h | h | e | f | g | e | 1 | |
| A. humerale Koch, 1844 | FG019i | d | c | e | i | d | 2 |
| FG019j | i | g | g | h | _ | 1 | |
| A. latepunctatum Tonelli-Rondelli, 1939 | FG019c | d | c | c | d | c | 1 |
| FG019k | i | g | g | j | f | 1 | |
| FG019l | j | e | a | e | g | 1 | |
| A. longirostre (Koch, 1844) | FG019m | b | a | a | b | a | 4 |
| A. naponense (Packard, 1869) | FG019n | k | h | h | _ | _ | 1 |
| A. varium Koch, 1844 | FG019o | d | k | i | f | d | 1 |
| FG019p | l | i | j | e | h | 2 | |
| Haemaphysalis juxtakochi Cooley, 1946 | FG019q | d | c | e | _ | _ | 1 |
| FG019r | i | c | g | _ | _ | 1 | |
| Ixodes luciae Senevet, 1940 | FG019s | g | k | e | f | d | 3 |
Letters a–k represent the different alleles at each gene locus. Dash indicates an absence of PCR product. n, number of specimens for each Rickettsia genotype (on the basis of multilocus typing of 44 representative tick samples).