Neorickettsia risticii is vertically transmitted in the trematode Acanthatrium oregonense and horizontally transmitted to bats

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 203-212

  Gibson, Kathryn E ^a   Rikihisa, Yasuko ^a   Zhang, Chunbin ^a   Martin, Carole ^b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; BACTERIAL DNA; RIBOSOME DNA;

ANAPLASMOSIS; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BAT; BLOOD; CHEMISTRY; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; IMMUNOCHEMISTRY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LIVER; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NEORICKETTSIA RISTICII; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPLEEN; TREMATODE;

ANAPLASMATACEAE INFECTIONS; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BLOOD; CHIROPTERA; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, HORIZONTAL; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; IMMUNOCHEMISTRY; LIVER; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEORICKETTSIA RISTICII; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPLEEN; TREMATODA;

ACANTHATRIUM OREGONENSE; EHRLICHIA; EPTESICUS; EPTESICUS FUSCUS; EQUUS CABALLUS; MYOTIS LUCIFUGUS; NEORICKETTSIA RISTICII; TREMATODA; TRICHOPTERA;

EID: 12744274656     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2004.00683.x     Document Type: Article

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