Ultrastructural evidence of the ehrlichial developmental cycle in naturally infected Ixodes persulcatus ticks in the course of coinfection with rickettsia, borrelia, and a flavivirus

Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 699-716

  Popov, Vsevolod L ^a,b   Korenberg, Edward I ^c   Nefedova, Valentina V ^c   Han, Violet C ^a   Wen, Julie W ^a   Kovalevskii, Yurii V ^c   Gorelova, Natalia B ^c   Walker, David H ^a,b  

^a University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

^b Center for Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Diseases   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF BIOMEDICAL CHEMISTRY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

"Candidatus Rickettsia tarasevichiae"; Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato (sl); Coinfection; Developmental cycle; Ehrlichia muris; Ixodes persulcatus

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BASE PAIRING; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA INFECTION; CELL CULTURE; CELL LINE; CELL TYPE; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; EHRLICHIA MURIS; EHRLICHIOSIS; EPITHELIUM CELL; GENE SEQUENCE; GLTA GENE; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; IXODES PERSULCATUS; LIFE CYCLE; MIDGUT; MIXED INFECTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RICKETTSIOSIS; RNA GENE; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SALIVARY GLAND; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TICK BORNE ENCEPHALITIS FLAVIVIRUS; VIRUS INFECTION;

ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ANIMALS; ARACHNID VECTORS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI GROUP; CELLS, CULTURED; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; EHRLICHIA; FEMALE; FLAVIVIRUS; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; IXODES; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RICKETTSIA; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; RUSSIA; SALIVARY GLANDS;

ANAPLASMATACEAE; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BORRELIA; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI GROUP; EHRLICHIA; EHRLICHIA MURIS; FLAVIVIRUS; IXODES; IXODES PERSULCATUS; IXODIDA; MUS; NEGIBACTERIA; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA TARASEVICHIAE; RICKETTSIACEAE; TICK-BORNE ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 37549059131     PISSN: 15303667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/vbz.2007.0148     Document Type: Article

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