Rickettsia parkeri in Amblyomma americanum ticks, Tennessee and Georgia, USA

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 15, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1471-1473

  Cohen, Sara B ^a   Yabsley, Michael J ^b   Garrison, Laurel E ^c   Freye, James D ^d   Dunlap, Brett G ^d   Dunn, John R ^a   Mead, Daniel G ^b   Jones, Timothy F ^a   Moncayo, Abelardo C ^a  

^a TENNESSEE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^c Georgia Department of Community Health   (United States)

^d U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; DNA; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN A;

AMBLYOMMA; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; DNA EXTRACTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA PARKERI; RICKETTSIOSIS; TICK; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; ARACHNID VECTORS; GEORGIA; HUMANS; IXODIDAE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA INFECTIONS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TENNESSEE;

EID: 70249141714     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1509.090330     Document Type: Article

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