Does tick-borne relapsing fever have an animal reservoir in East Africa?

Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 659-666

  McCall, P J ^a   Hume, Jen C C ^a   Motshegwa, Kefentse ^a   Pignatelli, Patricia ^a   Talbert, Alison ^b   Kisinza, William ^a  

^a LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b Mvumi Hospital   (Tanzania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLAGELLIN;

AFRICA; ARTICLE; BORRELIA; BORRELIA DUTTONII; BORRELIA INFECTION; CHICKEN; DISEASE CARRIER; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE INSERTION; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; INFESTATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SWINE; TICK; TICK BORNE DISEASE; TICK BORNE RELAPSING FEVER; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALS; ARTHROPOD VECTORS; BORRELIA; CHICKENS; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; FLAGELLIN; HOUSING; HUMANS; ORNITHODOROS; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RELAPSING FEVER; SWINE; TANZANIA; TICK INFESTATIONS;

ANIMALIA; ARGASIDAE; BORRELIA; BORRELIA DUTTONII; BORRELIA SP.; GALLUS GALLUS; IXODIDA; ORNITHODOROS; SUIDAE;

EID: 37549062154     PISSN: 15303667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/vbz.2007.0151     Document Type: Article

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