“…Rickettsia felis , which is associated with only one case of spotted fever (SF) recorded in Brazil (Raoult et al ., ), is strongly associated with the flea Ctenocephalides felis , which has been recorded in all five regional divisions of the country (Horta et al ., ). It was recently proposed that Rickettsia parkeri sensu stricto , a species known to be pathogenic on the American continent, is associated with SF in southern Brazil (Weck et al ., ), and another species, Rickettsia amblyommatis (= Candidatus Rickettsia amblyommii , Karpathy et al ., 2016), considered to be the bioagent of asymptomatic infection or self‐limiting disease (Fang et al ., ), has been recorded in the north, northeast, southeast and midwest regions of Brazil, although without associated clinical cases (Labruna et al ., , ; Saraiva et al ., ; Lopes et al ., ; McIntosh et al ., ; Nunes et al ., ; Melo et al ., ; Paiva et al ., ).…”