Survey of ticks collected in Mississippi for Rickettsia, Ehrlichia, and Borrelia species

Journal of Vector Ecology

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 184-189

  Goddard, Jerome ^a   Sumner, John W ^b   Nicholson, William I ^b   Paddock, Christopher D ^b   Shen, John ^b   Piesman, Joseph ^c  

^a MISSISSIPPI STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

Acanthoamoeba; Ehrlichia chaffeensis; Endosymbionts; Spotred fever group rickettsiae; Tick borne diseases

Indexed keywords

ACARI; AMBLYOMMA; AMBLYOMMA AMERICANUM; ANAPLASMA; AVES; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BORRELIA; CANIS FAMILIARIS; CERVIDAE; DERMACENTOR; DERMACENTOR VARIABILIS; EHRLICHIA; EHRLICHIA CHAFFEENSIS; IXODES; IXODES BRUNNEUS; IXODES SCAPULARIS; NEORICKETTSIA RISTICII; OTHER SEQUENCES; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA RICKETTSII; SPIROCHAETALES; SPOTTED FEVER GROUP;

BACTERIAL DNA; PROTOZOAL DNA; RNA 16S;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BORRELIA; DEER; DOG; EHRLICHIA CHAFFEENSIS; GENETICS; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RICKETTSIA; TICK; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; BORRELIA; DATA COLLECTION; DEER; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, PROTOZOAN; DOGS; EHRLICHIA CHAFFEENSIS; HUMANS; MISSISSIPPI; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RICKETTSIA; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; TICKS;

EID: 2142711266     PISSN: 10811710     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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