Ecology and epidemiology of spotted fever group rickettsiae and new data from their study in Russia and Kazakhstan

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 990, Issue , 2003, Pages 12-24

  Rudakov, N V ^a,b   Shpynov, S N ^a   Samoilenko, I E ^a   Tankibaev, M A ^c  

^a Laboratory of Arthropod Borne Viral Infections   (Russian Federation)

^b OMSK STATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^c KARAGANDA STATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Kazakhstan)

Author keywords

Ecology; Epidemiology; Evolution; Rickettsia; Tick

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BLOOD CELL; BLOOD EXAMINATION; BORRELIA; CONFERENCE PAPER; DERMACENTOR; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ECOLOGY; EHRLICHIA; ENDOSYMBIOSIS; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; EUKARYOTIC CELL; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; IXODES; KAZAKHSTAN; MICROORGANISM; MORBIDITY; PATHOGENICITY; RICKETTSIA; ROCKY MOUNTAIN SPOTTED FEVER; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SEASONAL VARIATION; SKIN BIOPSY; TICK BORNE DISEASE; TICK BORNE ENCEPHALITIS FLAVIVIRUS;

ACARI; ANAPLASMATACEAE; ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BORRELIA; DERMACENTOR; EHRLICHIA; EUKARYOTA; FLAVIVIRUS; IXODES; RHIPICEPHALUS; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIALES; TICK-BORNE ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS;

EID: 0038729258     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2003.tb07332.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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