Molecular detection of Bartonella schoenbuchensis from ectoparasites of deer in Massachusetts

Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 549-554

  Matsumoto, Kotaro ^a   Berrada, Zenda L ^a   Klinger, Elissa ^a   Goethert, Heidi K ^a   Telford III, Sam R ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bartonella schoenbuchensis; Deer keds; Deer ticks; Ectoparasites; Lipoptena cervi; Massachusetts

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BARTONELLA; BARTONELLA SCHOENBUCHENSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEER; DNA DETERMINATION; ECTOPARASITE; FEMALE; GENE SEQUENCE; MALE; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RICKETTSIOSIS; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; BARTONELLA; DEER; DIPTERA; DNA, BACTERIAL; ECTOPARASITIC INFESTATIONS; FEMALE; IXODES; MALE; MASSACHUSETTS; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

BARTONELLA; BARTONELLA SCHOENBUCHENSIS; CERVIDAE; HIPPOBOSCIDAE; IXODES DAMMINI; LIPOPTENA CERVI;

EID: 50849124722     PISSN: 15303667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/vbz.2007.0244     Document Type: Article

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