Localization and visualization of a Coxiella-type symbiont within the lone star tick, Amblyomma americanum

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 73, Issue 20, 2007, Pages 6584-6594

  Klyachko, Olga ^a   Stein, Barry D ^a   Grindle, Nathan ^a   Clay, Keith ^a   Fuqua, Clay ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOASSAY; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; DNA; GENES; PATHOGENS; TISSUE;

AMBLYOMMA AMERICANUM; DIAGNOSTIC FLUORESCENCE; ENDOSYMBIONTS; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION (FISH); MICROBES;

MICROORGANISMS;

RNA 16S;

FLUORESCENCE; GENE EXPRESSION; HYBRIDIZATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SYMBIONT; TICK; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; VISUALIZATION;

AMBLYOMMA; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; COXIELLA; EPIFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE SEQUENCE; MALPIGHIAN TUBULE; MIDGUT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OOCYTE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SALIVARY GLAND; SYMBIONT; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ANIMALS; COXIELLA; DNA, BACTERIAL; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; IXODIDAE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SALIVARY GLANDS; SYMBIOSIS;

AMBLYOMMA; AMBLYOMMA AMERICANUM; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); COXIELLA; IXODIDA;

EID: 35448992861     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00537-07     Document Type: Article

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