| serologic evidence of the exposure of small mammals to spotted-fever rickettsia and rickettsia bellii in minas gerais, brazil. | sources of pathogenic rickettsia in wildlife are largely unknown in brazil. in this work, potential tick vectors and seroreactivity of small mammals against four spotted-fever group rickettsia (r. rickettsii, r. parkeri, r. amblyommii and r. rhipicephali) and rickettsia bellii from peri-urban areas of uberlândia, a major town in brazil, are described for the first time. | 2016 | 27031460 |