Ticks and tick-borne rickettsiae surveillance in Montesinho Natural Park, Portugal

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1078, Issue , 2006, Pages 137-142

  Santos Silva, M ^a,e   Sousa, R ^a   Santos, A S ^a   Lopes, D ^b   Queijo, E ^c   Doreta, A ^b   Vitorino, L ^d   Bacellar, F ^a  

^a Instituto Nacional de Saude   (Portugal)

^b Camâra Municipal de Vinhais   (Portugal)

^c Organização de Produtores Pecuários de Vinhais   (Portugal)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH DR RICARDO JORGE   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Dermacentor marginatus; Dermacentor reticulatus; Israeli spotted fever; Portugal; Rhipicephalus sanguineus; Rickettsia slovaca; Rickettsiae; Rpa4; Ticks

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ASSAY; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONFERENCE PAPER; DERMACENTOR; DERMACENTOR PARUMAPERTUS; DERMACENTOR RETICULATUS; EHRLICHIA CHAFFEENSIS; ISRAELI SPOTTED FEVER; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PORTUGAL; RHIPICEPHALUS SANGUINEUS; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA SLOVACA; RICKETTSIOSIS; SCREENING; TICK;

ACARI; ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; DERMACENTOR MARGINATUS; DERMACENTOR RETICULATUS; EHRLICHIA CHAFFEENSIS; IXODIDA; RHIPICEPHALUS SANGUINEUS; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA SLOVACA; RICKETTSIA SP.; RICKETTSIACEAE;

EID: 33845703996     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1374.023     Document Type: Conference Paper

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