Gray foxes (Urocyon cinereoargenteus) as a potential reservoir of a Bartonella clarridgeiae-like bacterium and domestic dogs as part of a sentinel system for surveillance of zoonotic arthropod-borne pathogens in Northern California

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 45, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 2411-2418

  Henn, Jennifer B ^a,d   Gabriel, Mourad W ^a,b   Kasten, Rickie W ^a   Brown, Richard N ^b   Theis, Jerold H ^c   Foley, Janet E ^a   Chomel, Bruno B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b HUMBOLDT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; CITRATE SYNTHASE; SPACER DNA;

ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BARTONELLA CLARRIDGEIAE; BARTONELLA VINSONII; BARTONELLA VINSONII BERKHOFFII; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIROFILARIA IMMITIS; DNA SEQUENCE; DOG; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; FOX; GLTA GENE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RURAL AREA; SUBSPECIES; UNITED STATES; YERSINIA PESTIS; ZOONOSIS;

ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BARTONELLA; BARTONELLA INFECTIONS; CALIFORNIA; CITRATE (SI)-SYNTHASE; DIROFILARIA IMMITIS; DIROFILARIASIS; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; EHRLICHIOSIS; FEMALE; FOXES; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENTINEL SURVEILLANCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; YERSINIA PESTIS; ZOONOSES;

ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ARTHROPODA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BARTONELLA; BARTONELLA CLARRIDGEIAE; BARTONELLA VINSONII SUBSP. BERKHOFFII; CANIS FAMILIARIS; DIROFILARIA IMMITIS; UROCYON; UROCYON CINEREOARGENTEUS; YERSINIA PESTIS;

EID: 34548085443     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.02539-06     Document Type: Article

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