Blood meal analysis to identify reservoir hosts for Amblyomma americanum ticks

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 433-440

  Allan, Brian F ^a   Goessling, Lisa S ^a   Storch, Gregory A ^b   Thach, Robert E ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ST LOUIS CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME RNA;

AMBLYOMMA; ARTICLE; BLOOD; DEER; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; INFECTION RATE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESERVOIR; RNA GENE; TAXONOMY; TICK; TICK BORNE DISEASE; WHITE TAILED DEER; WILDLIFE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; BLOOD; BORRELIA; DEER; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; DNA PROBES; DNA, BACTERIAL; EHRLICHIA; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; IXODIDAE; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TICK INFESTATIONS;

EID: 77649174004     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1603.090911     Document Type: Article

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