Prevalence of ehrlichia muris in wisconsin deer ticks collected during the mid 1990s

Open Microbiology Journal

Volumn 5, Issue , 2011, Pages 18-20

  Telford III, Sam R ^a   Goethert, Heidi K ^a   Cunningham, Jenny A ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Deer ticks; Ehrlichia muris; Ehrlichiosis; Ixodes dammini; PCR; Wisconsin

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; RNA 16S;

BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; DEER; EHRLICHIA; EHRLICHIA MURIS; GENE TARGETING; HUMAN; HUMAN GRANULOCYTIC ANAPLASMOSIS; LETTER; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE VECTOR; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TICK BITE; UNITED STATES;

EHRLICHIA; EHRLICHIA MURIS; IXODES DAMMINI; IXODIDA;

EID: 79955856425     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18742858     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/1874285801105010018     Document Type: Letter

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