Factors influencing in vitro infectivity and growth of Rickettsia peacockii (Rickettsiales: Rickettsiaceae), an endosymbiont of the Rocky Mountain wood tick, Dermacentor andersoni (Acari, Ixodidae)

Journal of Invertebrate Pathology

Volumn 90, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 177-186

  Kurtti, Timothy J ^a   Simser, Jason A ^a,b   Baldridge, Gerald D ^a   Palmer, Ann T ^a   Munderloh, Ulrike G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension   (United States)

Author keywords

Cultivation; Dermacentor andersoni; East Side Agent; Endosymbiont; Host cell range; Rickettsia; Rickettsia peacockii; Rocky Mountain wood tick

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DERMACENTOR; FEMALE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; MICROBIOLOGY; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIOSIS; SYMBIOSIS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; DERMACENTOR; FEMALE; HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA INFECTIONS; SYMBIOSIS;

ACARI; AEDES ALBOPICTUS; AMBLYOMMA; AMBLYOMMA AMERICANUM; ARTHROPODA; CARIOS CAPENSIS; DERMACENTOR; DERMACENTOR ALBIPICTUS; DERMACENTOR ANDERSONI; IXODES RICINUS; IXODES SCAPULARIS; IXODIDAE; LEPIDOPTERA; MAMMALIA; ORNITHODOROS MOUBATA; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA PEACOCKII; RICKETTSIACEAE; RICKETTSIALES; TRICHOPLUSIA NI;

EID: 27944436579     PISSN: 00222011     EISSN: 10960805     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jip.2005.09.001     Document Type: Article

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