Bartonella species in small mammals and their ectoparasites in Taiwan

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 83, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 917-923

  Tsai, Yi Lun ^a   Chuang, Shih Te ^b   Chang, Chao Chin ^b   Kass, Philip H ^a   Chomel, Bruno B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CHUNG HSING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BARTONELLA; BARTONELLA ELIZABETHAE; BARTONELLA PHOCEENSIS; BARTONELLA QUEENSLANDENSIS; BARTONELLA RATTIMASSILIENSIS; BARTONELLA ROCHALIMAE; BARTONELLA TRIBOCORUM; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DERMACENTOR; ECTOPARASITE; FEMALE; FLEA; IXODES; LOUSE; MALE; MITE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; POLYPLAX; PREVALENCE; RAT; SHREW; SMALL MAMMAL; TAIWAN; TICK; XENOPSYLLA; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTHROPOD; BARTONELLOSIS; CLASSIFICATION; ECTOPARASITOSIS; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; NYMPH; PARASITOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; RODENT DISEASE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ACARI; ANIMALIA; BARTONELLA; BARTONELLA ELIZABETHAE; BARTONELLA PHOCEENSIS; BARTONELLA RATTIMASSILIENSIS; BARTONELLA TRIBOCORUM; DERMACENTOR; IXODES; IXODIDA; LAELAPS; MAMMALIA; PHTHIRAPTERA; POLYPLAX; RATTUS; SIPHONAPTERA (FLEAS); SORICIDAE; XENOPSYLLA CHEOPIS;

ANIMALS; ARTHROPODS; BARTONELLA; BARTONELLA INFECTIONS; DNA, BACTERIAL; ECTOPARASITIC INFESTATIONS; FEMALE; MALE; NYMPH; PHYLOGENY; PREVALENCE; RATS; RODENT DISEASES; SHREWS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TAIWAN;

EID: 79958051820     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.2010.10-0083     Document Type: Article

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