Rickettsia spp. In ticks, Poland

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 486-488

  Chmielewski, Tomasz ^a,c   Podsiadly, Edyta ^a   Karbowiak, Grzegorz ^b   Tylewska Wierzbanowska, Stanislawa ^a  

^a NATIONAL MEDICINES INSTITUTE   (Poland)

^b W STEFA SKI INSTITUTE OF PARASITOLOGY   (Poland)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HYGIENE   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; CITRATE SYNTHASE; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN A;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA EXTRACTION; GENE SEQUENCE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLAND; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA SLOVACA; TICK;

ANIMALS; ARACHNID VECTORS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CAT DISEASES; CATS; DERMACENTOR; DNA, BACTERIAL; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; IXODES; POLAND; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RICKETTSIA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TICK INFESTATIONS;

EID: 63849194030     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1503.080711     Document Type: Article

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