Associations Between Coinfection Prevalence of Borrelia lusitaniae, Anaplasma sp., and Rickettsia sp. in Hard Ticks Feeding on Reptile Hosts

Microbial Ecology

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 245-253

  Václav, Radovan ^a   Ficová, Martina ^a   Prokop, Pavol ^a   Betáková, Tatiana ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

ANAPLASMA; ANAPLASMOSIS; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BORRELIA; BORRELIA INFECTION; DISEASE CARRIER; FEMALE; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; IXODES; LIZARD; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIACEAE INFECTION;

ANAPLASMA; ANAPLASMOSIS; ANIMALS; BORRELIA; BORRELIA INFECTIONS; DISEASE VECTORS; DNA, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; IXODES; LIZARDS; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA INFECTIONS;

ANAPLASMA; BORRELIA; BORRELIA LUSITANIAE; IXODES RICINUS; IXODIDA; IXODIDAE; LACERTA VIRIDIS; REPTILIA; RICINUS COMMUNIS; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA SP.; SQUAMATA;

EID: 79951517241     PISSN: 00953628     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00248-010-9736-0     Document Type: Article

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