Field collection and genetic classification of tick-borne rickettsiae and rickettsiae-like pathogens from south Texas: Coxiella burnetii isolated from field-collected Amblyomma cajennense

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1149, Issue , 2008, Pages 208-211

  Sanders, David M ^a,c,d   Parker, Jill E ^b   Walker, Wes W ^b   Buchholz, Matt W ^b   Blount, Keith ^b   Kiel, Johnathan L ^b  

^a AIR FORCE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d USAF   (United States)

Author keywords

Amblyomma cajennense; Cayenne tick; Coxiella burnetii; Q fever; Tick bone fever

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ABORTION; AMBLYOMMA; AMBLYOMMA CAJENNENSE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; COXIELLA BURNETII; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; GOAT DISEASE; INFECTION RATE; LIFE CYCLE; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; Q FEVER; RICKETTSIOSIS; SHEEP DISEASE; TICK; TICK BORNE DISEASE; UNITED STATES;

AMBLYOMMA CAJENNENSE; ARTHROPODA; CAPRA HIRCUS; COXIELLA BURNETII; DERMACENTOR ANDERSONI; IXODIDA; OVIS ARIES; RICKETTSIACEAE; UNGULATA;

EID: 57849101793     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1428.022     Document Type: Conference Paper

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