Detection and identification of bacterial agents in ixodes persulcatus Schulze ticks from the North Western region of Russia

Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 426-436

  Eremeeva, Marina E ^a,e   Oliveira, Alice ^a   Moriarity, John ^a   Robinson, Jennilee B ^a   Tokarevich, Nikolay K ^b   Antyukova, Ludmila P ^c   Pyanyh, Valentina A ^d   Emeljanova, Olga N ^d   Ignatjeva, Valentina N ^d   Buzinov, Roman ^d   Pyankova, Valentina ^d   Dasch, Gregory A ^a  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b ST PETERSBURG PASTEUR INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^c Saint Petersburg Forest Ecological Center   (Russian Federation)

^d Center for Epidemiological Surveillance   (Russian Federation)

^e Mail Stop G 13 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Borrelia burgdorferi; Candidatus Rickettsia tarasevichiae; Ehrlichia muris; Ixodes persulcatus; Multiplex PCR; Quantitative PCR

Indexed keywords

AMPLICON; ARTICLE; BABESIOSIS; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DNA SEQUENCE; EHRLICHIA; EHRLICHIA MURIS; EHRLICHIOSIS; ENDOSYMBIONT; FEMALE; GLTA GENE; IXODES PERSULCATUS; LYME DISEASE; MALE; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIOSIS; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ANAPLASMATACEAE; ANIMALS; ARTHROPOD VECTORS; BACTERIA; BORRELIA; EHRLICHIA; FEMALE; IXODES; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; RICKETTSIA; RUSSIA;

ANAPLASMATACEAE; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; EHRLICHIA MURIS; IXODES PERSULCATUS; IXODIDA; MONTEZUMA; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA TARASEVICHIAE;

EID: 35148872130     PISSN: 15303667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/vbz.2007.0112     Document Type: Article

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