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Survey for Rickettsiae Within Fleas of Great Gerbils, Almaty Oblast, Kazakhstan
Yerlan Sansyzbayev1, Talgat Nurmakhanov1, Almas Berdibekov1
11 Kazakh Scientific Center for Quarantine and Zoonotic Disease , Almaty, Kazakhstan .
Vector Borne and Zoonotic Diseases (Larchmont, N.Y.)
|December 20, 2016
Abstract:
Little is known of the endemicity of flea-borne rickettsiae in Kazakhstan. Thus, a survey for rickettsiae within great gerbil fleas was conducted in Almaty oblast. High prevalence of Rickettsia asembonensis was detected among Xenopsylla gerbilli, demonstrating that flea-borne rickettsiae are endemic to southeastern Kazakhstan. Interestingly, no Rickettsia typhi were detected in these same fleas.

