Prevalence of tick-borne zoonotic bacteria in questing adult ticks from Northern Spain

Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 829-835

  Barandika, Jesus F ^a   Hurtado, Ana ^a   García Sanmartín, Josune ^a   Juste, Ramon A ^a   Anda, Pedro ^b   García Pérez, Ana L ^a  

^a NEIKER and a Vaccine producing Commercial Company CZVSL   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

Author keywords

Anaplasma; Borrelia; Coxiella; Rickettsia; Ticks

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; CITRATE SYNTHASE; DNA;

ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ARTICLE; BORRELIA; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; COXIELLA BURNETII; DERMACENTOR; GENE; GENE SEQUENCE; GLTA GENE; HAEMAPHYSALIS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IXODES; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE LINE BLOTTING; RHIPICEPHALUS; SPAIN; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; TICK; TICK BORNE DISEASE; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; DNA, BACTERIAL; LARVA; NYMPH; PREVALENCE; SEASONS; SPAIN; TICKS; ZOONOSES;

ANAPLASMA; ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; BORRELIA; BORRELIA AFZELII; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA GARINII; COXIELLA; COXIELLA BURNETII; DERMACENTOR; DERMACENTOR RETICULATUS; HAEMAPHYSALIS; HAEMAPHYSALIS CONCINNA; HAEMAPHYSALIS PUNCTATA; IXODES; IXODES RICINUS; IXODIDA; RHIPICEPHALUS; RHIPICEPHALUS BURSA; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA SP.; RICKETTSIACEAE;

EID: 57749091482     PISSN: 15303667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/vbz.2008.0023     Document Type: Article

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