Differentiation of medically important Euro-Asian tick species ixodes ricinus, ixodes persulcatus, ixodes hexagonus, and dermacentor reticulatus by polymerase chain reaction

Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 899-905

  Rumer, Leonid ^a   Sheshukova, Olga ^a   Dautel, Hans ^b   Mantke, Oliver Donoso ^a   Niedrig, Matthias ^a  

^a ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^b IS Insect Services GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Diagnostics; Ixodes; PCR; Tick(s)

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME RNA;

ARTICLE; DERMACENTOR; DERMACENTOR RETICULATUS; GENE CLUSTER; GENE LOCUS; IXODES; IXODES HEXAGONUS; IXODES PERSULCATUS; IXODES RICINUS; MATURATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

ANIMALS; ASIA; DNA PRIMERS; EUROPE; FEMALE; IXODIDAE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

DERMACENTOR RETICULATUS; IXODES; IXODES HEXAGONUS; IXODES PERSULCATUS; IXODES RICINUS; IXODIDA;

EID: 79960114833     PISSN: 15303667     EISSN: 15577759     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/vbz.2009.0191     Document Type: Article

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