Isolation of Coxiella burnetii by a centrifugation shell-vial assay from ticks collected in Cyprus: Detection by nested polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and by PCR-restriction fragment length polymorphism analyses

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 86-90

  Spyridaki, Ioanna ^a   Psaroulaki, Anna ^a   Loukaides, Fidias ^a   Antoniou, Maria ^a   Hadjichristodolou, Christos ^a   Tselentis, Yannis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COXIELLA BURNETII; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DNA SEQUENCE; HEMOLYMPH; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; Q FEVER; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; TICK; ZOONOSIS;

ACARI; COXIELLA BURNETII; RHIPICEPHALUS; RHIPICEPHALUS SANGUINEUS; RICKETTSIALES;

EID: 0036308446     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.2002.66.86     Document Type: Article

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