First detection of spotted fever group rickettsiae in Ixodes ricinus from Italy

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 983-986

  Beninati, Tiziana ^a   Lo, Nathan ^a,b   Noda, Hiroaki ^b   Esposito, Fulvio ^c   Rizzoli, Annapaola ^d   Favia, Guido ^c   Genchi, Claudio ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMERINO   (Italy)

^d CENTRO DI ECOLOGIA ALPINA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIUM DETECTION; FEMALE; ITALY; IXODES RICINUS; MALE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA CONORII; RICKETTSIA HELVETICA; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

EID: 0036711893     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid0809.020600     Document Type: Article

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