Microscopy of spotted fever rickettsia movement through tick cells

Microscopy and Microanalysis

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 115-121

  Munderloh, Ulrike G ^a   Hayes, Stanley F ^b   Cummings, Joel ^a   Kurtti, Timothy J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

F actin; Ixodes scapularis; Rhipicephalus appendiculatus; Rickettsia; Rickettsial dispersal; Rickettsial outer membrane protein B (rOmpB); Tick; Tick cell culture

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032397685     PISSN: 14319276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1431927698980096     Document Type: Article

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