Experimental Infection of Amblyomma aureolatum Ticks with rickettsia rickettsii

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 829-834

  Labruna, Marcelo B ^a   Ogrzewalska, Maria ^a   Soares, João F ^a   Martins, Thiago F ^a   Soares, Herbert S ^a   Moraes Filho, Jonas ^a   Nieri Bastos, Fernanda A ^a   Almeida, Aliny P ^a   Pinter, Adriano ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b Superintendency of Control of Endemic Diseases   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMBLYOMMA AUREOLATUM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTHROPOD LARVA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EGG LAYING; EXPERIMENTAL INFECTION; FEMALE; FEVER; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; MALE; MOLTING; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; NYMPH; RICKETTSIA RICKETTSII; ROCKY MOUNTAIN SPOTTED FEVER; SEROCONVERSION; TICK; TICK INFESTATION;

ANIMALS; DOGS; FEMALE; GUINEA PIGS; MALE; RABBITS; RICKETTSIA RICKETTSII; ROCKY MOUNTAIN SPOTTED FEVER; TICKS;

EID: 79955778119     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1705.101524     Document Type: Article

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