Molecular typing of novel Rickettsia rickettsii isolates from Arizona

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1078, Issue , 2006, Pages 573-577

  Eremeeva, Marina E ^a,b   Bosserman, Elizabeth ^a   Zambrano, Maria ^a   Demma, Linda ^a   Dasch, Gregory A ^a  

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

^b Mail Stop G 13 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Molecular marker; Rickettsia rickettsii; VNTR

Indexed keywords

DNA;

BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BLOOD; CONFERENCE PAPER; DERMACENTOR; DERMACENTOR ANDERSONI; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE; GENE SEQUENCE; MOLECULAR TYPING; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RHIPICEPHALUS SANGUINEUS; RICKETTSIA RICKETTSII; ROMPA GENE; SKIN BIOPSY; TANDEM REPEAT; UNITED STATES;

DERMACENTOR ANDERSONI; IXODIDA; RHIPICEPHALUS SANGUINEUS; RICKETTSIA RICKETTSII;

EID: 33845709528     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1374.114     Document Type: Conference Paper

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