Rickettsia felis in fleas, France

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 684-686

  Gilles, Jeremie ^a,c,d   Just, Frank Thomas ^a   Silaghi, Cornelia ^a   Pradel, Ingrid ^a   Lengauer, Heidi ^b   Hellmann, Klaus ^b   Pfister, Kurt ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b Klifovet AG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OLIGONUCLEOTIDE;

CTENOCEPHALIDES; DISEASE CARRIER; ELECTROPHORESIS; FLEA; FRANCE; GENBANK; INFESTATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LETTER; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; RICKETTSIA FELIS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION;

EID: 42049106644     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1404.071103     Document Type: Letter

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