Highly prevalent Coxiella sp. bacterium in the tick vector Amblyomma americanum

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 334-336

  Jasinskas, Algimantas ^a   Zhong, Jianmin ^a,b   Barbour, Alan G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b HUMBOLDT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENES; MICROBIOLOGY;

OBLIGATE ENDOSYMBIONTS;

BACTERIA;

RNA 16S;

BACTERIUM; DISEASE VECTOR; ENDOSYMBIONT; GENOME; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTION; OBLIGATE BEHAVIOR; TICK;

AMBLYOMMA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIUM DETECTION; COXIELLA; ENDOSYMBIONT; FEMALE; GENE SEQUENCE; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PREVALENCE; RICKETTSIA; TICK; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; ARACHNID VECTORS; COXIELLA; FEMALE; GENE LIBRARY; IXODIDAE; PREVALENCE; RICKETTSIA; RNA, BACTERIAL; SYMBIOSIS;

AMBLYOMMA AMERICANUM; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); COXIELLA SP.; IXODIDA; RICKETTSIA SP.;

EID: 33846135426     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02009-06     Document Type: Article

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