Short report: New spotted fever group Rickettsia in a Rhipicephalus turanicus tick removed from a child in eastern Sicily, Italy

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 84, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 99-101

  Eremeeva, Marina E ^a   Stromdahl, Ellen Y ^b  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b Entomological Sciences Program   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; ITALY; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENICITY; RHIPICEPHALUS; RHIPICEPHALUS TURANICUS; RICKETTSIA; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SPOTTED FEVER GROUP RICKETTSIA; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; INFANT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; PARASITE VECTOR; PARASITOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; TICK INFESTATION;

IXODIDA; RHIPICEPHALUS TURANICUS; RICKETTSIA;

ANIMALS; ARACHNID VECTORS; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; PHYLOGENY; RHIPICEPHALUS; RICKETTSIA; SICILY; TICK INFESTATIONS;

EID: 79952263491     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.2011.10-0176     Document Type: Article

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