Prevalence of Coxiella burnetii and Rickettsia spp. in ticks and rodents in southern Germany

Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 145-147

  Pluta, Silvia ^a,b   Hartelt, Kathrin ^b   Oehme, Rainer ^b   Mackenstedt, Ute ^a   Kimmig, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

^b Baden Wurttemberg State Health Office   (Germany)

Author keywords

Coxiella burnetii; Dermacentor; Epidemiology; Germany; Rickettsia; Tick borne lymphadenopathy

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COXIELLA BURNETII; DERMACENTOR; DERMACENTOR PARUMAPERTUS; DERMACENTOR RETICULATUS; ENDEMIC DISEASE; GERMANY; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; INFECTION RISK; MICROTUS ARVALIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE EXAMINATION; PARASITE VECTOR; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; Q FEVER; RAT; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA RAOULTII; RICKETTSIA SLOVACA; RICKETTSIACEAE INFECTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RODENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES COMPARISON; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; WILD ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; ARVICOLINAE; COXIELLA BURNETII; DEMOGRAPHY; DERMACENTOR; DNA, BACTERIAL; GERMANY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; Q FEVER; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA INFECTIONS; RODENT DISEASES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); COXIELLA BURNETII; DERMACENTOR; DERMACENTOR MARGINATUS; DERMACENTOR RETICULATUS; IXODIDA; MICROTUS ARVALIS; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA SLOVACA; RICKETTSIACEAE; RODENTIA;

EID: 77956461580     PISSN: 1877959X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ttbdis.2010.04.001     Document Type: Article

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