Spotted fever group rickettsiae in ticks, Germany

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 890-892

  Silaghi, Cornelia ^a   Hamel, Dietmar ^a   Thiel, Claudia ^a   Pfister, Kurt ^a   Pfeffer, Martin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; COAL MINING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GERMANY; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RECREATION; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA HELVETICA; RICKETTSIA RAOULTII; RICKETTSIA SLOVACA; TICK;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; GENES, BACTERIAL; GERMANY; HUMANS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RICKETTSIA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TICKS;

EID: 79955749295     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1705.101445     Document Type: Article

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