Novel rickettsia in ticks, Tasmania, Australia

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 15, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1654-1656

  Izzard, Leonard ^a,b   Graves, Stephen ^a   Cox, Erika ^c   Fenwick, Stan ^b   Unsworth, Nathan ^d   Stenos, John ^a,b  

^a GEELONG HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c LAUNCESTON GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^d TEXAS A AND M HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CITRATE SYNTHASE;

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BACTERIAL GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE SEQUENCE; IXODES; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RICKETTSIA; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; IXODES; MALE; MARSUPIALIA; NYMPH; RICKETTSIA; TASMANIA;

EID: 70349975010     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1510.090799     Document Type: Article

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