Prevalence and genetic heterogeneity of Bartonella strains cultured from rodents from 17 provinces in Thailand

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 81, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 811-816

  Bai, Ying ^a   Kosoy, Michael Y ^a   Lerdthusnee, Kriangkrai ^b   Peruski, Leonard F ^c   Richardson, Jason H ^b  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b ARMED FORCES RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Thailand)

^c Thailand MOPH Collaboration   (Thailand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASIA; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BANDICOTA INDICA; BANDICOTA SAVILEI; BARTONELLA; BARTONELLA COOPERSPLAINENSIS; BARTONELLA ELIZABETHAE; BARTONELLA PHOCEENSIS; BARTONELLA RATTIMASSILLIENSIS; BARTONELLA TRIBOCORUM; BERYLMYS BERDMOREI; CLADISTICS; GENE CLUSTER; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC ISOLATION BY DISTANCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENUS; HOST RANGE; MUS CAROLI; MUS CERVICOLOR; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PREVALENCE; PYREXIA IDIOPATHICA; RAT; RATTUS ARGENTIVENTER; RATTUS EXULANS; RATTUS LOSEA; RATTUS NITIDUS; RATTUS RATTUS; RATTUS REMOTUS; RATTUS SURIFER; RODENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES COMPARISON; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; THAILAND; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; BARTONELLOSIS; DISEASE CARRIER; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; RODENT DISEASE;

BANDICOTA; BARTONELLA; BARTONELLA ELIZABETHAE; BARTONELLA PHOCEENSIS; BARTONELLA RATTIMASSILIENSIS; BARTONELLA TRIBOCORUM; BERYLMYS BERDMOREI; RATTUS; RODENTIA;

ANIMALS; BARTONELLA; BARTONELLA INFECTIONS; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; GENETIC VARIATION; PHYLOGENY; PREVALENCE; RODENT DISEASES; RODENTIA; THAILAND;

EID: 70449730785     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.2009.09-0294     Document Type: Article

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