Evidence of horizontal transmission of feline leukemia virus by the cat flea (Ctenocephalides felis)

Parasitology Research

Volumn 91, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 467-470

  Vobis, M ^a   D'Haese, J ^a   Mehlhorn, H ^a   Mencke, N ^b  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b BAYER AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; PRIMER DNA; VIRUS RNA;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BLOOD SAMPLING; CAT; CAT DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; FECES ANALYSIS; FELINE LEUKEMIA VIRUS; FEMALE; FLEA; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LEUKEMIA; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENICITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VIREMIA; VIROLOGY; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; BASE SEQUENCE; CATS; DNA PRIMERS; FEMALE; FLEAS; LEUKEMIA VIRUS, FELINE; LEUKEMIA, FELINE; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, VIRAL; TERMINAL REPEAT SEQUENCES;

ANIMALIA; CTENOCEPHALIDES; CTENOCEPHALIDES FELIS; FELIDAE; FELINE LEUKEMIA VIRUS; FELIS; FELIS CATUS; RNA VIRUSES; SIPHONAPTERA (FLEAS); UNIDENTIFIED RETROVIRUS;

EID: 0347363819     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-003-0949-8     Document Type: Article

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