Spotted fever group rickettsia infecting ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) in the state of Santa Catarina, Brazil

Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

Volumn 106, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 926-930

  Medeiros, Alessandra Pereira ^b   de Souza, Antonio Pereira ^b   de Moura, Anderson Barbosa ^b   Lavina, Marcia Sangaletti ^b   Bellato, Valdomiro ^b   Sartor, Amélia Aparecida ^b   Nieri Bastos, Fernanda Aparecida ^a   Richtzenhain, Leonardo José ^a   Labruna, Marcelo Bahia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b SANTA CATARINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Amblyomma; Dermacentor; Rhipicephalus; Rickettsia; Spotted fever; Ticks

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; IXODIDAE; MICROBIOLOGY; PARASITOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RICKETTSIA; ROCKY MOUNTAIN SPOTTED FEVER; WILD ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; ANIMALS, WILD; BRAZIL; INSECT VECTORS; IXODIDAE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RICKETTSIA; ROCKY MOUNTAIN SPOTTED FEVER;

ACARI; AMBLYOMMA; AMBLYOMMA AUREOLATUM; AMBLYOMMA CAJENNENSE; AMBLYOMMA DUBITATUM; AMBLYOMMA LONGIROSTRE; AMBLYOMMA OVALE; AMBLYOMMA TIGRINUM; ANIMALIA; BOOPHILUS; DERMACENTOR; DERMACENTOR NITENS; IXODIDA; IXODIDAE; RHIPICEPHALUS; RHIPICEPHALUS SANGUINEUS; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA AMBLYOMMII; RICKETTSIA PARKERI;

EID: 84855518396     PISSN: 00740276     EISSN: 16788060     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762011000800005     Document Type: Article

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