Expression of rOmpA and rOmpB protein in Rickettsia massiliae during the Rhipicephalus turanicus life cycle

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1078, Issue , 2006, Pages 352-356

  Ogawa, Motohiko ^a   Matsumoto, Kotaro ^a   Philippe, Parola ^a   Raoult, Didier ^a   Brouqui, Philippe ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Larvae; Rhipicephalus turanicus; Rickettsia massiliae; rOmpA; rOmpB

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN; ROMPA PROTEIN; ROMPB PROTEIN;

BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; LARVAL STAGE; LIFE CYCLE; NONHUMAN; ORGANISM COLONY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RHIPICEPHALUS; RHIPICEPHALUS TURANICUS; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA MASSILIAE; TICK;

ACARI; RHIPICEPHALUS TURANICUS; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA MASSILIAE;

EID: 33845711044     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1374.069     Document Type: Conference Paper

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