Detection of bacteria related to Candidatus Midichloria mitochondrii in tick cell lines

Parasitology Research

Volumn 110, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 437-442

  Najm, Nour Addeen ^a   Silaghi, Cornelia ^a   Bell Sakyi, Lesley ^b   Pfister, Kurt ^a   Passos, Lygia M Friche ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

16SRRNA GENE; ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CANDIDATUS MIDICHLORIA MITOCHONDRII; CELL LINE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GYRB GENE; IXODES RICINUS; IXODES SCAPULARIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHIPICEPHALUS; RHIPICEPHALUS DECOLORATUS; RHIPICEPHALUS MICROPLUS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SYMBIOSIS; TICK CELL LINE;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ANIMALS; CELL LINE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; FEMALE; IXODES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RHIPICEPHALUS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BOOPHILUS; IXODES RICINUS; IXODES SCAPULARIS; IXODIDA; RHIPICEPHALUS;

EID: 84857050501     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: 14321955     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-011-2509-y     Document Type: Article

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