Rickettsial agents in Egyptian ticks collected from domestic animals

Experimental and Applied Acarology

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 67-81

  Loftis, Amanda D ^a   Reeves, Will K ^a   Szumlas, Daniel E ^b   Abbassy, Magda M ^c   Helmy, Ibrahim M ^c   Moriarity, John R ^a   Dasch, Gregory A ^a  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b Navy Disease Vector Ecology and Control Center   (United States)

^c US Naval Medical Research Unit No 3   (United States)

Author keywords

Acari; Egypt; PCR; Rickettsiales; Veterinary; Zoonotic diseases

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; RNA 16S; RNA 18S;

BACTERIUM; DOMESTIC SPECIES; GENETIC ANALYSIS; ISOLATED POPULATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TICK;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; EGYPT; FEMALE; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; RICKETTSIA; RURAL POPULATION; TICK; TICK BORNE DISEASE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, BACTERIAL; EGYPT; FEMALE; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; RICKETTSIA; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S; RURAL POPULATION; TICK-BORNE DISEASES; TICKS;

AFRICA; EGYPT; NORTH AFRICA;

ACARI; ANAPLASMA; ANAPLASMA MARGINALE; ANAPLASMA PLATYS; ANIMALIA; ARGAS; ARGAS PERSICUS; BARTONELLA; BOOPHILUS; BOS TAURUS; CAMELIDAE; CANIDAE; CANIS FAMILIARIS; COXIELLA BURNETII; EHRLICHIA; EHRLICHIA CANIS; ERINACEIDAE; HYALOMMA; HYALOMMA ANATOLICUM ANATOLICUM; HYALOMMA ANATOLICUM EXCAVATUM; HYALOMMA DROMEDARII; HYALOMMA MARGINATUM RUFIPES; IXODES RICINUS; IXODES RICINUS ENDOSYMBIONT 1 (IRICES1); IXODIDA; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; OVIS ARIES; RATTUS RATTUS; RHIPICEPHALUS; RHIPICEPHALUS ANNULATUS; RHIPICEPHALUS SANGUINEUS; RHIPICEPHALUS TURANICUS; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA AESCHLIMANNII; RICKETTSIALES;

EID: 33749871773     PISSN: 01688162     EISSN: 15729702     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10493-006-9025-2     Document Type: Article

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