PCR detection of granulocytic Anaplasma and Babesia in Ixodes ricinus ticks and birds in west-central Poland

Annals of Agricultural and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 21-23

  Skotarczak, Bogumiła ^a   Rymaszewska, Anna ^a   Wodecka, Beata ^a   Sawczuk, Marek ^a   Adamska, Małgorzata ^a   Maciejewska, Agnieszka ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SZCZECIN   (Poland)

Author keywords

Anaplasma and Babesia in birds; Anaplasma and Babesia in ticks; PCR

Indexed keywords

DNA 18S; RIBOSOME RNA;

ANAPLASMA; ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ARTICLE; BABESIA; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BIRD; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPANK 1 GENE; IXODES RICINUS; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; POLAND; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TICK; VEGETATION;

ANAPLASMA; ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ANIMALS; ARACHNID VECTORS; BABESIA; BABESIOSIS; BIRD DISEASES; BIRDS; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, PROTOZOAN; EHRLICHIOSIS; IXODES; POLAND; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ACARI; ANAPLASMA; ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; AVES; BABESIA; IXODES RICINUS; IXODIDA;

EID: 33746420622     PISSN: 12321966     EISSN: 12321966     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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