Multiple tick-associated bacteria in Ixodes ricinus from Slovakia

Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases

Volumn 3, Issue 5-6, 2012, Pages 406-410

  Subramanian, Geetha ^a   Sekeyova, Zuzana ^b   Raoult, Didier ^a   Mediannikov, Oleg ^a  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b INSTITUTE OF VIROLOGY   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Anaplasma; Borrelia Wolbachia; Ixodes ricinus; Rickettsia; Slovakia

Indexed keywords

ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ARSENOPHONUS NASONIAE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BORRELIA; BORRELIA AFZELII; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA GARINII; BORRELIA MIYAMOTOI; BORRELIA VALAISIANA; CANDIDATUS MIDICHLORIA MITONCHONDRII; EHRLICHIA MURIS; ENDOSYMBIONT; IXODES RICINUS; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA HELVETICA; SLOVAKIA; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPIROPLASMA; SPIROPLASMA IXODETIS; WOLBACHIA PIPIENTIS;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; IXODES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SLOVAKIA; TREES;

ANAPLASMA; ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ARSENOPHONUS NASONIAE; BARTONELLA; BORRELIA; BORRELIA AFZELII; COXIELLA BURNETII; EHRLICHIA MURIS; IXODES RICINUS; IXODIDA; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA HELVETICA; SPIROPLASMA IXODETIS; WOLBACHIA;

EID: 84855697436     PISSN: 1877959X     EISSN: 18779603     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ttbdis.2012.10.001     Document Type: Article

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