Molecular identification of salp15, a key salivary gland protein in the transmission of lyme disease spirochetes, from ixodes persulcatus and ixodes pacificus (acari: Ixodidae)

Journal of Medical Entomology

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1458-1463

  Hojgaard, Andrias ^a,b   Biketov, Sergey F ^c   Shtannikov, Alexander V ^c   Zeidner, Nordin S ^a   Piesman, Joseph ^a  

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

^b FSU SRC for Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology   (Russian Federation)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Ixodes; Lyme disease; Salivary glands; Salp15; Ticks

Indexed keywords

ACARI; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; IXODES; IXODES PACIFICUS; IXODES PERSULCATUS; IXODES RICINUS; IXODES SCAPULARIS; IXODIDA; IXODIDAE; MURINAE; SPIROCHAETALES; VERTEBRATA;

SALIVA PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CHEMISTRY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; GENETICS; IXODES; LYME DISEASE; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PARASITE VECTOR; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ARTHROPOD VECTORS; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; IXODES; LYME DISEASE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SALIVARY PROTEINS AND PEPTIDES; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

EID: 75549087980     PISSN: 00222585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/033.046.0631     Document Type: Article

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