Differences in the transmissibility of two Anaplasma phagocytophilum strains by the North American tick vector species, Ixodes pacificus and Ixodes scapularis (Acari: Ixodidae)

Experimental and Applied Acarology

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 47-58

  Teglas, Mike B ^a   Foley, Janet ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Disease coevolution; Granulocytic anaplasmosis; Vectorial capacity

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIUM ANTIBODY; MSP2 PROTEIN, ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

COEVOLUTION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DISEASE VECTOR; EPIDEMIOLOGY; PARASITIC DISEASE; TICK;

ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BLOOD; C3H MOUSE; CELL STRAIN HL 60; CHEMISTRY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EHRLICHIOSIS; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HORSE; HUMAN; IXODES; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MOUSE; PARASITE VECTOR; PHYSIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; ARTHROPOD VECTORS; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; DNA, BACTERIAL; EHRLICHIOSIS; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; HL-60 CELLS; HORSES; HUMANS; IXODES; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C3H; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

NORTH AMERICA;

ACARI; ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); IXODES; IXODES PACIFICUS; IXODES RICINUS; IXODES SCAPULARIS; IXODIDAE;

EID: 33645155183     PISSN: 01688162     EISSN: 15729702     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10493-005-5293-5     Document Type: Article

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