Coxiella Symbionts in the Cayenne Tick Amblyomma cajennense

Microbial Ecology

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 134-142

  Machado Ferreira, Erik ^a   Dietrich, Gabrielle ^b   Hojgaard, Andrias ^b   Levin, Michael ^b   Piesman, Joseph ^b   Zeidner, Nordin S ^b   Soares, Carlos A G ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; COXIELLA; FEMALE; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; SYMBIOSIS; TICK;

ANIMALS; COXIELLA; FEMALE; IXODIDAE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SYMBIOSIS;

AMBLYOMMA; AMBLYOMMA AMERICANUM; AMBLYOMMA CAJENNENSE; ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); COXIELLA; COXIELLA BURNETII; IXODIDA;

EID: 79960584506     PISSN: 00953628     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00248-011-9868-x     Document Type: Article

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