Spotted fever group rickettsiae in ticks, Morocco

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 14, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1067-1073

  Sarih, Mhammed ^a   Socolovschi, Cristina ^b   Boudebouch, Najma ^a   Hassar, Mohammed ^a   Raoult, Didier ^b   Parola, Philippe ^b,c  

^a Institut Pasteur du Maroc   (Morocco)

^b WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; CITRATE SYNTHASE; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; DERMACENTOR PARUMAPERTUS; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; GENE SEQUENCE; HYALOMMA MARGINATUM; IXODES RICINUS; MOROCCO; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RHIPICEPHALUS SANGUINEUS; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA AESCHLIMANNII; RICKETTSIA HELVETICA; RICKETTSIA MASSILIAE; RICKETTSIA MONACENSIS; RICKETTSIA RAOULTII; RICKETTSIA SLOVACA; TICK; VEGETATION;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BOUTONNEUSE FEVER; CITRATE (SI)-SYNTHASE; EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; IXODIDAE; MOROCCO; PREVALENCE; RICKETTSIA; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S;

EID: 46349090452     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1407.070096     Document Type: Article

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