Borrelia in Ethiopian ticks

Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 14-17

  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

Argas; Louse borne relapsing fever; Ornithodoros; Soft ticks; Spirochaetes; Tick borne relapsing fever

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S;

AMBLYOMMA; ARGAS; ARTICLE; BOOPHILUS; BORRELIA; BORRELIA INFECTION; ETHIOPIA; GENE SEQUENCE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PODOSPORA ANSERINA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOIL ANALYSIS; TICK; TICK BORNE DISEASE;

ANIMALS; ARACHNID VECTORS; ARGAS; BASE SEQUENCE; BORRELIA; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; ETHIOPIA; HUMANS; LIVESTOCK; LYME DISEASE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ORNITHODOROS; PETS; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOIL; TICK INFESTATIONS;

ANIMALIA; ARGAS; ARGAS PERSICUS; ARGASIDAE; BORRELIA; BORRELIA ANSERINA; BORRELIA THEILERI; IXODIDA; IXODIDAE; ORNITHODOROS; PHTHIRAPTERA; SPIROCHAETES;

EID: 84856572719     PISSN: 1877959X     EISSN: 18779603     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ttbdis.2011.08.004     Document Type: Article

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