Detection of spotted fever group Rickettsia spp. from bird ticks in the U.K.

Medical and Veterinary Entomology

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 340-343

  Graham, R I ^a   Mainwaring, M C ^a   Du Feu, R ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ixodes lividus; Migratory birds; Rickettsia sp.; Sand martins; Tick borne disease

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; MIGRATORY SPECIES; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; MORPHOLOGY; PARASITE INFESTATION; PARASITIC DISEASE; PASSERINE; TICK;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; IXODES; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIACEAE INFECTION; SWALLOW (BIRD); UNITED KINGDOM; WILD ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; DNA, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; IXODES; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA INFECTIONS; SWALLOWS;

THAILAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

ACARI; AVES; HIRUNDINIDAE; IXODES; IXODES LIVIDUS; IXODIDA; IXODIDAE; PASSERI; PASSERIFORMES; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA HEILONGJIANGENSIS; RICKETTSIA JAPONICA; RICKETTSIA SP.; RIPARIA RIPARIA;

EID: 77955240298     PISSN: 0269283X     EISSN: 13652915     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2915.2010.00886.x     Document Type: Article

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