Relapsing fever borrelia in Ornithodoros ticks from Bolivia

Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology

Volumn 105, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 407-411

  Parola, Philippe ^a   Ryelandt, Julien ^a   Mangold, Atilio J ^a   Mediannikov, Oleg ^a   Guglielmone, Alberto A ^a   Raoult, Didier ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S;

ARTICLE; BOLIVIA; BORRELIA; BORRELIA INFECTION; FEVER; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECURRENT DISEASE; TICK;

ANIMALS; BOLIVIA; BORRELIA; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ORNITHODOROS; PHYLOGENY; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RELAPSING FEVER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

BORRELIA; IXODIDA; ORNITHODOROS;

EID: 80052876006     PISSN: 00034983     EISSN: 13648594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/1364859411Y.0000000021     Document Type: Article

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