Transstadial transmission of francisella tularensis holarctica in mosquitoes, sweden

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 794-799

  Lundström, Jan O ^a   Andersson, Ann Christin ^b   Bäckman, Stina ^b   Schäfer, Martina L ^a   Forsman, Mats ^b   Thelaus, Johanna ^b  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b SWEDISH DEFENCE RESEARCH AGENCY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; FLOODWATER; SNOW; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WATER;

AEDES; AEDES CINEREUS; AEDES COMMUNIS; AEDES INTRUDENS; AEDES PUNCTOR; AEDES STICTICUS; AEDES VEXANS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTHROPOD LARVA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BREEDING; CONTAINER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULEX PIPIENS; CULISETA ALASKAENSIS; CULISETA ANNULATA; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FEMALE; FRANCISELLA TULARENSIS; GENE DELETION; GENE SEQUENCE; IPNA GENE; MALE; MOSQUITO; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES HABITAT; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; SWEDEN; TULAREMIA; WATER SAMPLING;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CULICIDAE; FEMALE; FRANCISELLA TULARENSIS; GENES, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE DELETION; SWEDEN; TULAREMIA; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 79955781682     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1705.100426     Document Type: Article

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