Antibiotic treatment of the tick vector Amblyomma americanum reduced reproductive fitness

PLoS ONE

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 2007, Pages

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b HUMBOLDT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUFFER; RIFAMPICIN; TETRACYCLINE;

AMBLYOMMA; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COXIELLA; EGG LAYING; ENDOSYMBIONT; FEMALE; LARVA; MALE; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MOLECULAR PROBE; MOLTING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; NYMPH; PISCIRICKETTSIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; TICK; VECTOR CONTROL; ANIMAL; DRUG EFFECT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PARASITE VECTOR; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; RICKETTSIA;

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

ANIMALS; ARACHNID VECTORS; COXIELLA; FEMALE; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRODUCTION; RICKETTSIA; RIFAMPIN; TETRACYCLINE; TICKS;

EID: 35448952297     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0000405     Document Type: Article

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