Detection of Anaplasma phagocytophilum in Amblyomma flavomaculatum ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) collected from lizard Varanus exanthematicus imported to Poland

Experimental and Applied Acarology

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 363-371

  Nowak, Magdalena ^a   Cieniuch, Stella ^b   Stańczak, Joanna ^b   Siuda, Krzysztof ^a  

^a PEDAGOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GDANSK   (Poland)

Author keywords

Amblyomma; Anaplasma phagocytophilum; Hyalomma; Ixodida; PCR, Poland; Reptilia; Spotted fever group rickettsiae

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM; DETECTION METHOD; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; DISEASE VECTOR; GENE EXPRESSION; HOMOLOGY; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; INVASIVE SPECIES; NUCLEIC ACID; PATHOGENICITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPTILE; TICK;

AFRICA; ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ECTOPARASITOSIS; EHRLICHIOSIS; FEMALE; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LIZARD; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; NYMPH; PARASITOLOGY; POLAND; REPTILE; TICK; IXODIDAE; TRANSMISSION; VETERINARY;

AFRICA; ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ANIMALS; ECTOPARASITIC INFESTATIONS; EHRLICHIOSIS; FEMALE; IXODIDAE; LIZARDS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NYMPH; POLAND; REPTILES;

GEORGIA; GHANA; POLAND; SAVANNAH; UNITED STATES;

ACARI; AMBLYOMMA; ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; HYALOMMA; HYALOMMA AEGYPTIUM; IXODIDA; IXODIDAE; PYTHON REGIUS; REPTILIA; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIACEAE; SQUAMATA; TESTUDO MARGINATA; VARANUS EXANTHEMATICUS;

EID: 77954426621     PISSN: 01688162     EISSN: 15729702     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10493-009-9332-5     Document Type: Article

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