First detection of Anaplasma phagocytophilum in quill mites (Acari: Syringophilidae) parasitizing passerine birds

Microbes and Infection

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 303-307

  Skoracki, MacIej ^a   Michalik, Jerzy ^a   Skotarczak, Bogumiła ^b   Rymaszewska, Anna ^b   Sikora, Bozena ^a   Hofman, Teresa ^c   Wodecka, Beata ^b   Sawczuk, Marek ^b  

^a ADAM MICKIEWICZ UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SZCZECIN   (Poland)

^c Center of Allergology   (Poland)

Author keywords

Anaplasma phagocytophilum; Ixodes ricinus; Quill mites; Syringophilidae

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

ACARI; ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BIRD; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECTOPARASITE; FEATHER; FEEDING; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IXODES RICINUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLAND; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STARLING;

ACARI; ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ANIMALS; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BIRD DISEASES; DNA, BACTERIAL; FEATHERS; IXODES; MITE INFESTATIONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PASSERIFORMES; POLAND; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ACARI; ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ANIMALIA; AVES; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); IXODES RICINUS; PASSERIFORMES; STURNIDAE; SYRINGOPHILIDAE; TURDUS MERULA;

EID: 32344436094     PISSN: 12864579     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.micinf.2005.06.029     Document Type: Article

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