Tortoise tick Hyalomma aegyptium as long term carrier of Q fever agent Coxiella burnetii-evidence from experimental infection

Parasitology Research

Volumn 107, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1515-1520

  Široký, Pavel ^a   Kubelová, Michaela ^a   Modrý, David ^a,b   Erhart, Jan ^b   Literák, Ivan ^a   Špitalská, Eva ^c   Kocianová, Elena ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY AND PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCES   (Czech Republic)

^b INSTITUTE OF PARASITOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^c INSTITUTE OF VIROLOGY   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGLUTINATION TEST; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTHROPOD LARVA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COXIELLA BURNETII; DISEASE CARRIER; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GUINEA PIG; HYALOMMA AEGYPTIUM; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; Q FEVER; TICK;

ANIMALS; COXIELLA BURNETII; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; GUINEA PIGS; IXODIDAE; LARVA;

CAVIA; COXIELLA BURNETII; HYALOMMA AEGYPTIUM; IXODIDA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 78449299180     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-010-2037-1     Document Type: Article

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