Bartonella genotypes in fleas (insecta: Siphonaptera) collected from rodents in the negev desert, Israel

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 76, Issue 20, 2010, Pages 6864-6869

  Morick, Danny ^a   Krasnov, Boris R ^b   Khokhlova, Irina S ^b   Shenbrot, Georgy I ^b   Kosoy, Michael Y ^c   Harrus, Shimon ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CITRATE SYNTHASE; GENE FRAGMENTS; INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACERS; NEGEV DESERT; RNA POLYMERASE; SEQUENCE SIMILARITY;

LANDFORMS; MAMMALS; RNA;

LAKES;

BACTERIAL DNA; CITRATE SYNTHASE; DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; RIBOSOMAL SPACER DNA; RNA POLYMERASE BETA SUBUNIT;

BACTERIUM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FLEA; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; PATHOGEN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RODENT; TAXONOMY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BARTONELLA; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA SEQUENCE; FLEA; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; ISRAEL; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RODENT;

ANIMALS; BARTONELLA; CITRATE (SI)-SYNTHASE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; GENOTYPE; ISRAEL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RODENTIA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SIPHONAPTERA;

BARTONELLA; BARTONELLA HENSELAE; INSECTA; RODENTIA; SIPHONAPTERA (FLEAS);

EID: 77958576182     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00879-10     Document Type: Article

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