Cell lines from the soft tick Ornithodoros moubata

Experimental and Applied Acarology

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 209-219

  Bell Sakyi, Lesley ^a   Růžek, Daniel ^b   Gould, Ernest A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

^c CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ornithodoros moubata; Tick cell line; Tick borne encephalitis virus

Indexed keywords

CRYOPRESERVATION; CYTOLOGY; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; NEONATE; POPULATION STRUCTURE; SURVIVORSHIP; TICK; VIRUS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CELL LINE; CRYOPRESERVATION; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; CYTOLOGY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LARVA; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; TICK; TICK BORNE ENCEPHALITIS FLAVIVIRUS; VIROLOGY;

ANIMALS; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELL LINE; CRYOPRESERVATION; ENCEPHALITIS VIRUSES, TICK-BORNE; LARVA; ORNITHODOROS;

ARGASIDAE; IXODIDA; IXODIDAE; ORNITHODOROS MOUBATA; SUS; TICK-BORNE ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS;

EID: 70350101430     PISSN: 01688162     EISSN: 15729702     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10493-009-9258-y     Document Type: Article

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