Author(s)

Lourdes Lledó¹, Consuelo Giménez-Pardo¹, Rufino Álamo²

¹Departamento de Biomedicina y Biotecnología, Universidad Alcalá, Alcalá de Henares, Spain.
²Consejería de Sanidad y Bienestar Social de la Junta de Castilla y León, Valladolid, Spain.

A molecular survey of 230 serum samples from cattle was studied by PCR-amplification of the citrate synthase gene gltA, the gene coding for protein 190 kDa—ompA—and the gene ompB. The study was carried out in the Junta of Castilla y León (northern Spain). The results suggest that the molecular study of the serum cattle would not make a good method in epidemiological studies on rickettsiae in this region. But it is necessary to continue and expand the work with more sensitive molecular methods.

Rickettsiae, Epidemiology, Molecular Assay

Lledó, L. , Giménez-Pardo, C. and Álamo, R. (2018) Molecular Study of Rickettsiae in Serum Cattle. Open Journal of Preventive Medicine, 8, 260-265. doi: 10.4236/ojpm.2018.88022.