Israeli spotted fever Rickettsia in Sicilian Rhipicephalus sanguineus ticks [6]

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 892-893

  Giammanco, Giovanni M ^a   Mansueto, Serafino ^a   Ammatuna, Pietro ^a   Vitale, Giustina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BOUTONNEUSE FEVER; ENDEMIC DISEASE; GENE SEQUENCE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; ISRAEL; LETTER; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RHIPICEPHALUS SANGUINEUS; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA CONORII; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TICK;

EID: 0038724684     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid0907.030109     Document Type: Letter

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