Bartonella quintana in Ethiopian lice

Comparative Immunology, Microbiology and Infectious Diseases

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 17-21

  Cutler, Sally ^a   Abdissa, Alemseged ^b   Adamu, Haileeysus ^b   Tolosa, Tadele ^b   Gashaw, Abebaw ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b JIMMA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

Bartonella; Borrelia; Coxiella; Human lice; Pediculus humanus corpus; Pediculus humanus humanus; Rickettsia spp.; Yersinia pestis

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA; INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BARTONELLA; BARTONELLA QUINTANA; BORRELIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; COXIELLA BURNETII; DNA EXTRACTION; ETHIOPIA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PEDICULUS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RICKETTSIA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; YERSINIA PESTIS;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; BARTONELLA QUINTANA; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; HOMELESS PERSONS; HUMANS; LICE INFESTATIONS; PEDICULUS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

BARTONELLA; BARTONELLA QUINTANA; BORRELIA; COXIELLA; COXIELLA BURNETII; PEDICULUS HUMANUS; PEDICULUS HUMANUS CORPORIS; PHTHIRAPTERA; RICKETTSIA; YERSINIA PESTIS;

EID: 84855462454     PISSN: 01479571     EISSN: 18781667     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cimid.2011.09.007     Document Type: Article

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