Spotted fever group rickettsiae from ticks captured in Sudan

Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 107-109

  Morita, Chiharu ^d   El Hussein, Abdel Rahim Mohamed ^a   Matsuda, Etsurou ^d   Abdel Gabbar, Khalil Mohamed Ali ^a   Muramatsu, Yasukazu ^d   Abdel Rahman, Magdi Badawi ^a   Hassan Eleragi, Ali Mohamed ^a   Hassan, Shawgi Mohamed ^b   Chitambo, Agnes Mumbi ^c   Ueno, Hiroshi ^d  

^a University of Bahr Elghazal   (Sudan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KHARTOUM   (Sudan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NAMIBIA   (Namibia)

^d RAKUNO GAKUEN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CITRATE SYNTHASE; DNA; MEMBRANE ANTIGEN;

AMBLYOMMA; ARTICLE; BOVIDS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA AFRICAE; RICKETTSIOSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SUDAN; TICK;

ANIMALS; ARACHNID VECTORS; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BOUTONNEUSE FEVER; GENE AMPLIFICATION; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RICKETTSIA CONORII; RUMINANTS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SUDAN; TICK INFESTATIONS; TICKS;

EID: 4143115832     PISSN: 13446304     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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