Molecular identification of Rickettsia felis-like bacteria in Haemaphysalis sulcata ticks collected from domestic animals in southern Croatia

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1078, Issue , 2006, Pages 347-351

  Duh, Darja ^a   Punda Polić, Volga ^b   Trilar, Tomi ^c   Petrovec, Miroslav ^a   Bradarić, Nikola ^b   Avšič Županc, Tatjana ^a  

^a Institute of Microbiology and Immunology   (Slovenia)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SPLIT   (Croatia)

^c SLOVENIAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Haemaphysalis sulcata ticks; Molecular analysis; Rickettsia; Southern Croatia

Indexed keywords

GLTA PROTEIN; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN B; PROTEIN;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROATIA; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; GENE; GLTA GENE; GOAT; HAEMAPHYSALIS SULCATA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OUTER MEMBRANE B GENE; RICKETTSIA FELIS; SHEEP; TICK;

ANIMALIA; CAPRA HIRCUS; HAEMAPHYSALIS SULCATA; IXODIDA; OVIS ARIES; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA FELIS; RICKETTSIACEAE;

EID: 33845717140     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1374.068     Document Type: Conference Paper

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