Role of Hippoboscidae flies as potential vectors of Bartonella spp. infecting wild and domestic ruminants

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 70, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 6302-6305

  Halos, Lénaïg ^a   Jamal, Taoufik ^a   Maillard, Renaud ^a   Girard, Benjamin ^a   Guillot, Jacques ^a   Chomel, Bruno ^b   Vayssier Taussat, Muriel ^a   Boulouis, Henri Jean ^a  

^a ECOLE NATIONALE VÉTÉRINAIRE D ALFORT   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; GENES; INSECT CONTROL;

BITING FLIES; RUMINANTS;

MICROORGANISMS;

AMPHETAMINE; CITRATE SYNTHASE;

DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DISEASE VECTOR; FLY; RUMINANT;

ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BARTONELLA; BOVIDS; FLY; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HIPPOBOSCA EQUINA; HIPPOBOSCIDAE; LIPOPTENA CERVI; MELOPHAGUS OVINUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; VIRUS CARRIER;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; ANIMALS, WILD; BARTONELLA; BARTONELLA INFECTIONS; CITRATE (SI)-SYNTHASE; DIPTERA; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; INSECT VECTORS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; RUMINANTS;

ANIMALIA; ARTHROPODA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BARTONELLA; BOVIDAE; DIPTERA; HIPPOBOSCA; HIPPOBOSCIDAE; INSECTA; LIPOPTENA; LIPOPTENA CERVI; MELOPHAGUS OVINUS; RICKETTSIALES;

EID: 8144229486     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.70.10.6302-6305.2004     Document Type: Article

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