Rickettsia massiliae in the Canary Islands

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 15, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1869-1870

  Fernández De Mera, Isabel G ^a   Zivkovic, Zorica ^b   Bolaños, Margarita ^c   Carranza, Cristina ^c   Pérez Arellano, José Luis ^c,d   Gutiérrez, Carlos ^d   De La Fuente, José ^a,e  

^a INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIÓN EN RECURSOS CINEGÉTICOS IREC CSIC UCLM JCCM   (Spain)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO INSULAR DE GRAN CANARIA   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LAS PALMAS DE GRAN CANARIA   (Spain)

^e OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; ATPA PROTEIN; BACTERIAL RNA; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN A; PROTEIN; PROTEIN DNAK; RECA PROTEIN; REPLICATION INITIATOR PROTEIN DNAA; RNA 16S; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BACTERIUM ANTIBODY;

AMPLICON; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HYALOMMA LUSITANICUM; LETTER; MALE; MARKER GENE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRESERVATION; RABBIT; RHIPICEPHALUS; RHIPICEPHALUS PUSILLUS; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA MASSILIAE; SPAIN; TICK; MICROBIOLOGY; RICKETTSIACEAE INFECTION;

ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA INFECTIONS; SPAIN;

EID: 70350434496     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1511.090681     Document Type: Letter

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