Babesia species occurring in Austrian Ixodes ricinus ticks

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 74, Issue 15, 2008, Pages 4841-4846

  Blaschitz, Marion ^a   Narodoslavsky Gföller, Melanie ^a   Kanzler, Michaela ^a   Stanek, Gerold ^a   Walochnik, Julia ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SILICONES;

18S RRNA; AUSTRIA; HEAT-SHOCK PROTEIN 70; INFECTION RATES; INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER; LIFE-CYCLE STAGES; SAMPLING SITES;

LIFE CYCLE;

RIBOSOME RNA;

HOMINID; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTION; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; NEW RECORD; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN; PROTOZOAN; RNA; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; TICK;

ARTICLE; BABESIA; BABESIA DIVERGENS; BABESIOSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE; GENE SEQUENCE; HAEMAPHYSALIS CONCINNA; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 70 GENE; INFECTION RATE; IXODES RICINUS; LIFE CYCLE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE ISOLATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TICK;

ANIMALS; AUSTRIA; BABESIA; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; IXODES; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TICK-BORNE DISEASES;

BABESIA; BABESIA DIVERGENS; BABESIA SP.; HAEMAPHYSALIS CONCINNA; IXODES RICINUS; IXODIDA;

EID: 49449116420     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00035-08     Document Type: Article

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