| detection of spotted fever group rickettsia in haemaphysalis longicornis in hebei province, china. | abstract dna samples from 737 ticks pools, representing 6850 haemaphysalis longicornis and 51 dermacentor nuttalli ticks collected from hebei province, china, were analyzed by pcr for the presence of spotted fever group rickettsia. there were 50 (6.9%) of 724 h. longicornis ticks pools found positive, but no positive samples found in 13 d. nuttalli. sequence analysis of the partial outer membrane protein a (ompa) genes from the ten positive samples showed 98% identity, but different from the hom ... | 2011 | 21506802 |