Rickettsia felis from cat fleas: Isolation and culture in a tick-derived cell line

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 72, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 5589-5595

  Pornwiroon, Walairat ^a   Pourciau, Susan S ^a   Foil, Lane D ^b   Macaluso, Kevin R ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MEMBRANES; CELLS; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GENES; PROTEINS;

ARTHROPODS; PLASMIDS; RICKETTSIA FELIS; VACUOLIZATION;

CYTOLOGY;

GENOMIC DNA; RNA 16S;

BACTERIAL DISEASE; FELID; FLEA; GENETIC ANALYSIS; LYSIS; TICK; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CAT; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FLEA; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RICKETTSIA FELIS;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CATS; CELL LINE; FLEAS; IXODES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RICKETTSIA FELIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ACARI; ARTHROPODA; CTENOCEPHALIDES FELIS; IXODES SCAPULARIS; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA FELIS; RICKETTSIACEAE;

EID: 33747348963     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00532-06     Document Type: Article

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