Prevalence and genotypes of Anaplasma species and habitat suitability for ticks in a Mediterranean ecosystem

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 74, Issue 24, 2008, Pages 7578-7584

  Torina, Alessandra ^a   Alongi, Angelina ^a   Naranjo, Victoria ^b   Estrada Peña, Agustín ^c   Vicente, Joaquín ^b   Scimeca, Salvatore ^a   Marino, Anna M F ^a   Salina, Felice ^a   Caracappa, Santo ^a   De La Fuente, José ^b,d  

^a ISTITUTO ZOOPROFILATTICO SPERIMENTALE DELLA SICILIA A MIRRI   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIÓN EN RECURSOS CINEGÉTICOS IREC CSIC UCLM JCCM   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DE ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

^d OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEALTH RISKS; OCEAN HABITATS; PATHOGENS;

16S RRNA; HABITAT SUITABILITIES; HUMAN HEALTHS; MEDITERRANEAN ECOSYSTEMS; MEDITERRANEAN REGIONS;

ECOLOGY;

RNA 16S;

BACTERIUM; DISEASE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOTYPE; HABITAT QUALITY; HEALTH IMPACT; HEALTH RISK; HOST SPECIFICITY; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTION; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TICK;

ANAPLASMA; ANAPLASMA MARGINALE; ANAPLASMA OVIS; ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; ITALY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPECIES HABITAT; TICK;

ANAPLASMA MARGINALE; ANAPLASMA OVIS; ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; ANIMALS, WILD; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA, BACTERIAL; ECOSYSTEM; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHY; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SICILY; TICKS;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SICILY; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

ANAPLASMA; ANAPLASMA MARGINALE; ANAPLASMA OVIS; ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; BOS; IXODIDA;

EID: 57449092679     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01625-08     Document Type: Article

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