Interaction of mycobacterium ulcerans with mosquito species: Implications for transmission and trophic relationships

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 76, Issue 18, 2010, Pages 6215-6222

  Wallace, John R ^a   Gordon, Matthew C ^b   Hartsell, Lindsey ^b   Mosi, Lydia ^b,e   Benbow, M Eric ^c   Merritt, Richard W ^d   Small, Pamela L C ^b  

^a MILLERSVILLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON   (United States)

^d MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e University of Ghana   (Ghana)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEDES AEGYPTI; AQUATIC FOOD WEB; AUSTRALIA; CAUSATIVE AGENTS; ENVIRONMENTAL ISOLATES; ENVIRONMENTAL RESERVOIRS; FOOD CHAIN; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; MOSQUITO LARVAE; MOSQUITO SPECIES; NEGATIVE MUTANTS; PLANT MATERIAL; SKIN DISEASE; STAGNANT WATER; TROPHIC RELATIONSHIPS; WATER STRIDERS; WILD TYPES;

DISEASES; DNA; ECOLOGY; GENES;

RESERVOIRS (WATER);

PRIMER DNA;

BACTERIUM; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DISEASE VECTOR; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FOOD WEB; MORBIDITY; MOSQUITO; MYCOPARASITE; SKIN DISORDER; TROPHIC ENVIRONMENT;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BURULI ULCER; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FOOD CHAIN; GENETICS; LARVA; MICROBIOLOGY; MOSQUITO; MYCOBACTERIUM ULCERANS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; BURULI ULCER; CULICIDAE; DNA PRIMERS; FOOD CHAIN; INSECT VECTORS; LARVA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MYCOBACTERIUM ULCERANS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TENNESSEE;

AFRICA; AUSTRALIA;

AEDES AEGYPTI; BELOSTOMA; CULEX RESTUANS; GERRIDAE; INVERTEBRATA; MYCOBACTERIUM MARINUM; MYCOBACTERIUM ULCERANS; OCHLEROTATUS TRISERIATUS; TOXORHYNCHITES RUTILUS SEPTENTRIONALIS;

EID: 77956826427     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00340-10     Document Type: Article

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