Prevalence of Anaplasma phagocytophilum in Ixodes ricinus ticks determined by polymerase chain reaction with two pairs of primers detecting 16S rRNA and ankA genes

Annals of Agricultural and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 281-285

  Chmielewska Badora, Jolanta ^a   Zwoliński, Jacek ^a   Cisak, Ewa ^a   Wójcik Fatla, Angelina ^a   Buczek, Alicja ^b   Dutkiewicz, Jacek ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL MEDICINE   (Poland)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF LUBLIN   (Poland)

Author keywords

16S rRNA gene; Anaplasma phagocytophilum; ankA gene; Eastern Poland; Ixodes ricinus; PCR; Ticks

Indexed keywords

PRIMER DNA; RNA 16S;

ADULT; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANKA GENE; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CHI SQUARE TEST; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DNA DETERMINATION; FEMALE; FORESTRY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; INFECTION RISK; IXODES RICINUS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; NYMPH; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; POLAND; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; RNA GENE; VEGETATION;

ADULT; ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BITES AND STINGS; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, BACTERIAL; EHRLICHIOSIS; FEMALE; FORESTRY; HUMANS; IXODES; MALE; NYMPH; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; POLAND; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RISK FACTORS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; TICK-BORNE DISEASES;

ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; IXODES RICINUS; IXODIDA;

EID: 39649090996     PISSN: 12321966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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