Association of different genetic types of francisella-like organisms with the rocky mountain wood tick (Dermacentor andersoni) and the American dog tick (Dermacentor variabilis) in localities near their northern distributional limits

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 78, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 965-971

  Dergousoff, Shaun J ^a   Chilton, Neil B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

16S RRNA GENE; DIAGNOSTIC TESTS; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL STUDIES; FRANCISELLA TULARENSIS; GENETIC TYPE; HOST-SPECIFICITY; MOLECULAR TECHNIQUES; ROCKY MOUNTAINS; SEQUENCE DATA; SYMPATRIC POPULATION; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION;

BACTERIA; GENES; RNA;

POPULATION STATISTICS;

BACTERIAL DNA; RIBOSOME DNA; RNA 16S;

ALLOPATRY; BACTERIAL DISEASE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HOST SPECIFICITY; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; SYMPATRY; TICK;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CANADA; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DERMACENTOR; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; FRANCISELLA; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY;

ANIMALS; CANADA; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DERMACENTOR; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; FEMALE; FRANCISELLA; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

CANADA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CANIS FAMILIARIS; DERMACENTOR ANDERSONI; DERMACENTOR VARIABILIS; FRANCISELLA; FRANCISELLA TULARENSIS; IXODIDA;

EID: 84857090398     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.05762-11     Document Type: Article

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