Analysis of rickettsia typhi-infected and uninfected cat flea (ctenocephalides felis) midgut cdna libraries: Deciphering molecular pathways involved in host response to r. typhi infection

Insect Molecular Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 229-241

  Dreher Lesnick, S M ^a   Ceraul, H S M ^a   Lesnick, S C ^b   Gillespie, J J ^a,c   Anderson, J M ^d   Jochim, R C ^d   Valenzuela, J G ^d   Azad, A F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c VIRGINIA BIOINFORMATICS INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Flea; Midgut; R. typhi; Rickettsia

Indexed keywords

PEPTIDE HYDROLASE; PRIMER DNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CAT; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; DISEASE CARRIER; ENZYMOLOGY; FLEA; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LIBRARY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENICITY; RICKETTSIA TYPHI; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TYPHUS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CATS; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; DNA PRIMERS; FLEAS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LIBRARY; GENES, INSECT; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; INSECT VECTORS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDE HYDROLASES; RICKETTSIA TYPHI; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TYPHUS, ENDEMIC FLEA-BORNE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CTENOCEPHALIDES; CTENOCEPHALIDES FELIS; MURINAE; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA TYPHI; SIPHONAPTERA (FLEAS); VERTEBRATA;

EID: 77952637269     PISSN: 09621075     EISSN: 13652583     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2583.2009.00978.x     Document Type: Article

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