Spotted fever group rickettsiae in ticks feeding on humans in northwestern Spain: Is Rickettsia conorii vanishing?

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1078, Issue , 2006, Pages 331-333

  Fernández Soto, Pedro ^a   Pérez Sánchez, Ricardo ^b   Álamo Sanz, Rufino ^c   Encinas Grandes, Antonio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO DE RECURSOS NATURALES Y AGROBIOLOGÍA DE SALAMANCA   (Spain)

^c Departamento de Salud Pública   (Spain)

Author keywords

Castilla y Le n; Mediterranean spotted fever; R. aeschlimannii; R. slovaca; Rickettsia conorii; Spain

Indexed keywords

AMPLICON; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BOUTONNEUSE FEVER; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FOOD; GENE SEQUENCE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RHIPICEPHALUS SANGUINEUS; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA AESCHLIMANNII; RICKETTSIA CONORII; RICKETTSIA HELVETICA; RICKETTSIA MASSILIAE; RICKETTSIA SLOVACA; RICKETTSIOSIS; SEQUENCE DATABASE; SPAIN; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SPOTTED FEVER GROUP RICKETTSIAE; TICK;

ACARI; IXODIDA; RHIPICEPHALUS SANGUINEUS; RICKETTSIA CONORII; RICKETTSIA SLOVACA; RICKETTSIA SP.; RICKETTSIACEAE;

EID: 33845709932     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1374.063     Document Type: Conference Paper

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