Spotted Fever Group Rickettsiae in Ticks in Cyprus

Microbial Ecology

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 314-323

  Chochlakis, Dimosthenis ^a   Ioannou, Ioannis ^c   Sandalakis, Vassilios ^a   Dimitriou, Theodoros ^c   Kassinis, Nikolaos ^b   Papadopoulos, Byron ^a   Tselentis, Yannis ^a   Psaroulaki, Anna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b VETERINARY SERVICES   (Cyprus)

^c MINISTRY OF THE INTERIOR   (Cyprus)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CITRATE SYNTHASE; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BOVIDS; CANIDAE; CLASSIFICATION; CYPRUS; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; HARE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; IXODIDAE; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIACEAE INFECTION; SEASON; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TICK BORNE DISEASE;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CANIDAE; CITRATE (SI)-SYNTHASE; CYPRUS; HARES; IXODIDAE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA INFECTIONS; RUMINANTS; SEASONS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TICK-BORNE DISEASES;

ANIMALIA; BOS; CANIS FAMILIARIS; CAPRA HIRCUS; HAEMAPHYSALIS PUNCTATA; HAEMAPHYSALIS SULCATA; HYALOMMA ANATOLICUM EXCAVATUM; HYALOMMA MARGINATUM MARGINATUM; IXODIDA; OVIS ARIES; OVIS ARIES MUSIMON; RHIPICEPHALUS; RHIPICEPHALUS SANGUINEUS; RHIPICEPHALUS TURANICUS; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA AESCHLIMANNII; RICKETTSIA MASSILIAE; RICKETTSIA MONGOLOTIMONAE; RICKETTSIA SIBIRICA; RICKETTSIACEAE;

EID: 84856759907     PISSN: 00953628     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00248-011-9926-4     Document Type: Article

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