First detection of spotted fever group rickettsiae in Ixodes ricinus and Dermacentor reticulatus ticks in the UK

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 139, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 524-529

  Tijsse Klasen, E ^a   Jameson, L J ^b   Fonville, M ^a   Leach, S ^b   Sprong, H ^a   Medlock, J M ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

^b PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ixodes; rickettsiae; ticks; UK; zoonoses

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S; BACTERIAL DNA; RIBOSOME DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM CARRIER; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CITRATE SYNTHASE GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DERMACENTOR; DERMACENTOR RETICULATUS; FEMALE; IXODES RICINUS; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA HELVETICA; RICKETTSIA RAOULTII; RNA SEQUENCE; ROCKY MOUNTAIN SPOTTED FEVER; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; UNITED KINGDOM; ZOONOSIS; ANIMAL; BOUTONNEUSE FEVER; CHEMISTRY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; IXODES; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYLOGENY;

ANIMALS; BOUTONNEUSE FEVER; DERMACENTOR; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; IXODES; MALE; PHYLOGENY; RICKETTSIA; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; ZOONOSES;

EID: 79955687940     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: 14694409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268810002608     Document Type: Article

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