Wolbachia infection and the expression of cytoplasmic incompatibility in sandflies (Diptera: Psychodidae) from Egypt

Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology

Volumn 97, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 639-644

  Kassem, H A ^a   Hassan, A N ^a   Abdel Hamid, I ^b   Osman, G ^b   El Khalab, E M ^a   Madkour, M A ^b  

^a AIN SHAMS UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^b Agricultural Genetic Engineering Research Institute   (Egypt)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; TETRACYCLINE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM COLONY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; EGYPT; FEMALE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PHLEBOTOMUS; PHLEBOTOMUS BERGEROTI; PHLEBOTOMUS LANGERONI; PHLEBOTOMUS PAPATASI; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PSYCHODIDAE; SCREENING TEST; WOLBACHIA; WOLBACHIA INFECTION;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; EGYPT; FEMALE; INSECT VECTORS; MALE; PARASITOLOGY; PHLEBOTOMUS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRODUCTION; RICKETTSIACEAE INFECTIONS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TETRACYCLINES; WOLBACHIA;

ARACHNIDA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DIPTERA; HEXAPODA; PHLEBOTOMINAE; PHLEBOTOMUS BERGEROTI; PHLEBOTOMUS LANGERONI; PHLEBOTOMUS PAPATASI; PSYCHODIDAE; WOLBACHIA;

EID: 0041409737     PISSN: 00034983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/000349803225001391     Document Type: Article

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