Persistent Infection or successive reinfection of deer mice with Bartonella vinsonii subsp. arupensis

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 77, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1728-1731

  Bai, Ying ^a   Calisher, Charles H ^b   Kosoy, Michael Y ^a   Root, J Jeffrey ^b,c   Doty, Jeffrey B ^b  

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

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^c NATIONAL WILDLIFE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BELONG TO; BLOOD SAMPLES; DEER MOUSE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; PERSISTENT INFECTION; RE-INFECTION;

MAMMALS;

BACTERIAL DISEASE; BLOOD; DISEASE PREVALENCE; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; LONGITUDINAL GRADIENT; RODENT; SAMPLING; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BARTONELLA; BARTONELLOSIS; BLOOD; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MICROBIOLOGY; PEROMYSCUS; PREVALENCE; RODENT DISEASE; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; BARTONELLA; BARTONELLA INFECTIONS; BLOOD; COLORADO; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; PEROMYSCUS; PREVALENCE; RODENT DISEASES;

COLORADO; UNITED STATES;

BARTONELLA; BARTONELLA VINSONII SUBSP. ARUPENSIS; MUS; PEROMYSCUS; PEROMYSCUS MANICULATUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 79953177017     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02203-10     Document Type: Article

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