Molecular Detection of Murine Herpesvirus 68 in Ticks Feeding on Free-living Reptiles

Microbial Ecology

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 862-867

  Ficová, Martina ^a   Betáková, Tatiana ^a   Pančík, Peter ^a   Václav, Radovan ^b   Prokop, Pavol ^b   Halásová, Zuzana ^a   Kúdelová, Marcela ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF VIROLOGY   (Slovakia)

^b INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HERPES VIRUS INFECTION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; IXODES; LIZARD; PARASITOLOGY; RHADINOVIRUS; SLOVAKIA; VIROLOGY;

ANIMALS; DISEASE VECTORS; DNA, VIRAL; HERPESVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; IXODES; LIZARDS; RHADINOVIRUS; SLOVAKIA;

ANIMALIA; APODEMUS FLAVICOLLIS; HERPESVIRIDAE; IXODES RICINUS; IXODIDA; LACERTA VIRIDIS; MURID HERPESVIRUS 4; MURIDAE; MURINE HEPATITIS VIRUS; MUS; REPTILIA; RICINUS COMMUNIS; RODENTIA; SQUAMATA;

EID: 80255124874     PISSN: 00953628     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00248-011-9907-7     Document Type: Article

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