Emergence of Rickettsia Africae, Oceania

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 100-102

  Eldin, Carole ^a   Mediannikov, Oleg ^a   Davoust, Bernard ^a,b   Cabre, Olivier ^b   Barré, Nicolas ^c   Raoult, Didier ^a   Parola, Philippe ^a  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b Animal Epidemiology of the French Army Health Service   (France)

^c Institut Agronomique néo Calédonien   (New Caledonia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMBLYOMMA; AMBLYOMMA LOCULOSUM; AMPLICON; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BIRD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GLTA GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OMPA GENE; OMPB GENE; PACIFIC ISLANDS; RICKETTSIA AFRICAE;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIRD DISEASES; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IXODIDAE; OCEANIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA INFECTIONS; TICK INFESTATIONS;

EID: 78650970536     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1701.101081     Document Type: Article

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