Molecular differentiation of metastriate tick immatures

Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 334-342

  Anderson, Jennifer M ^a,b   Ammerman, Nicole C ^a   Norris, Douglas E ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Amblyomma; Dermacentor; Diagnostic; Haemaphysalis; Metastriate; Rhipicephalus

Indexed keywords

AMBLYOMMA; AMPLICON; ARACHNID; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DERMACENTOR; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FAMILIA; GENETIC PROCEDURES; GENUS; HAEMAPHYSALIS; METASTRIATA; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTRIATA; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; RHIPICEPHALUS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; TICK; UNITED STATES;

ACARI; AMBLYOMMA; DERMACENTOR; HAEMAPHYSALIS; IXODES; IXODIDAE; RHIPICEPHALUS;

EID: 12344261828     PISSN: 15303667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/vbz.2004.4.334     Document Type: Article

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