Cotransmission of divergent relapsing fever spirochetes by artificially infected Ornithodoros hermsi

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 77, Issue 24, 2011, Pages 8494-8499

  Policastro, Paul F ^a   Raffel, Sandra J ^a   Schwan, Tom G ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BORRELIA; GENOMIC GROUPS; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; MIXED CULTURES; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; QUANTITATIVE PCR;

GENES; MAMMALS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VECTORS;

BACTERIA;

ARBOREAL SPECIES; BACTERIAL DISEASE; BLOOD; DISEASE VECTOR; GENOMICS; GENOTYPE; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMIDITY; IMMUNOASSAY; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; LARVA; MICROSCOPY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RODENT; TICK;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BORRELIA; BORRELIA INFECTION; CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE MODEL; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; MICROBIOLOGY; MOUSE; PATHOGENICITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TICK;

ANIMALS; BLOOD; BORRELIA; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, INFECTIOUS; DISEASE VECTORS; GENOTYPE; MICE; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; ORNITHODOROS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RELAPSING FEVER;

NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 83155182673     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.05830-11     Document Type: Article

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