Rickettsia helvetica in Dermacentor reticulatus ticks

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 98-100

  Dobec, Marinko ^a,b,f   Golubic, Dragutin ^c   Punda Polic, Volga ^b,d   Kaeppeli, Franz ^a   Sievers, Martin ^e  

^a Medizinische Laboratorien Dr F Kaeppeli   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SPLIT   (Croatia)

^c Department of Internal Medicine   (Croatia)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SPLIT   (Croatia)

^e ZURICH UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Switzerland)

^f Medica   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CROATIA; DERMACENTOR; DERMACENTOR RETICULATUS; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; MIXED INFECTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA HELVITICA; RICKETTSIA SLOVACA; RICKETTSIACEAE INFECTION;

ANIMALS; ARACHNID VECTORS; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; CROATIA; DERMACENTOR; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; RICKETTSIA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 58849090152     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1501.080815     Document Type: Article

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