Deciphering the relationships between rickettsia conorii conorii and rhipicephalus sanguineus in the ecology and epidemiology of mediterranean spotted fever

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1166, Issue , 2009, Pages 49-54

  Parola, Philippe ^a,b   Socolovschi, Cristina ^a   Raoult, Didier ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Rhipicephalus sanguineus; Rickettsia conorii; Ticks rickettsia

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BOUTONNEUSE FEVER; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA SEQUENCE; DOG; DORMANCY; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; ECOLOGY; EDEMA; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; ERYTHEMA; GUINEA PIG; HOST; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HUMAN; INFECTION RATE; INOCULATION; INTERSPECIFIC RELATIONSHIP; LYMPHADENOPATHY; NONHUMAN; PAIN; PARASITE PREVALENCE; PARASITE VECTOR; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RABBIT; RESERVOIR; RHIPICEPHALUS SANGUINEUS; RICKETTSIA CONORII; ROCKY MOUNTAIN SPOTTED FEVER; SQUIRREL; STARVATION; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; TICK; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION; VOLE;

IXODIDA; RHIPICEPHALUS SANGUINEUS; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA CONORII;

EID: 67649684699     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2009.04518.x     Document Type: Article

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