Detection of spotted fever group rickettsia in haemaphysalis longicornis from hebei province, china

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 97, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 960-962

  Zou, Yaxue ^a   Wang, Qiuyue ^a   Fu, Zhixin ^a   Liu, Pengpeng ^a   Jin, Hongtao ^a,b   Yang, Huanhuan ^a,b   Gao, Hongwei ^a,b   Xi, Zhang ^a,c   Liu, Quan ^a   Chen, Lifeng ^a  

^a HEBEI NORMAL UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b BEIJING INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY AND EPIDEMIOLOGY   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN A;

BACTERIUM; CLADISTICS; DETECTION METHOD; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HOMOLOGY; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; MEMBRANE; NEW RECORD; NEW SPECIES; PARASITE PREVALENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN; TAXONOMY; TICK;

ARTICLE; BOUTONNEUSE FEVER; CHINA; DERMACENTOR NUTTALLI; DNA DETERMINATION; GENE; HAPLOTYPE; HEMAPHYSALIS LONGICORNIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OMPA GENE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTOZOON; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA HEBEIII; RICKETTSIA HEILONGJIANGII; RICKETTSIA HULINII; RICKETTSIA SIBIRICA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TICK;

ALGORITHMS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ARACHNID VECTORS; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHINA; DERMACENTOR; DNA, BACTERIAL; HEDGEHOGS; IXODIDAE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RICKETTSIA; SHEEP;

CHINA; HEBEI;

DERMACENTOR; HAEMAPHYSALIS LONGICORNIS; IXODIDA; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA HEILONGJIANGII; RICKETTSIA HULINII; RICKETTSIA SIBIRICA;

EID: 80053940899     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: 19372345     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1645/GE-2751.1     Document Type: Article

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