Tick-borne bacteria in free-living jaguars (Panthera onca) in Pantanal, Brazil

Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases

Volumn 11, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1001-1005

  Widmer, Cynthia E ^a   Azevedo, Fernando C C ^b   Almeida, Aliny P ^a   Ferreira, Fernando ^a   Labruna, Marcelo B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO JOÃO DEL REI   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Brazil; Carnivora; Coxiella; Ehrlichia; Rickettsia; Spotted fever group

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; BACTERIAL DNA; RNA 16S;

AMBLYOMMA CAJENNENSE; AMBLYOMMA TRISTE; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM; BOOPHILUS MICROPLUS; BRAZIL; COXIELLA BURNETII; DNA SEQUENCE; DSB GENE; EHRLICHIA; EHRLICHIA CANIS; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GENOTYPE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PANTHERA; PANTHERA ONCA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHIPICEPHALUS MICROPLUS; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA AMBLYOMMII; RICKETTSIA BELLII; RICKETTSIA FELIS; RICKETTSIA PARKERI; RICKETTSIA RHIPICEPHALI; RICKETTSIA RICKETTSII; RNA 16S GENE; TICK;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BRAZIL; COXIELLA BURNETII; DATABASES, NUCLEIC ACID; DISEASE VECTORS; DNA PRIMERS; EHRLICHIA CANIS; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; MALE; PANTHERA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RICKETTSIA; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; TICKS;

AMBLYOMMA; AMBLYOMMA CAJENNENSE; AMBLYOMMA TRISTE; ANIMALIA; BOOPHILUS; BOS; CARNIVORA; COXIELLA; COXIELLA BURNETII; EHRLICHIA; EHRLICHIA CANIS; EHRLICHIA RUMINANTIUM; EHRLICHIA SP.; IXODIDA; PANTHERA ONCA; RHIPICEPHALUS; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA AMBLYOMMII; RICKETTSIA BELLII; RICKETTSIA FELIS; RICKETTSIA PARKERI; RICKETTSIA RHIPICEPHALI; RICKETTSIA RICKETTSII;

EID: 80051492631     PISSN: 15303667     EISSN: 15577759     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/vbz.2011.0619     Document Type: Article

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