Prevalence of Neoehrlichia mikurensis in ticks and rodents from North-west Europe

Parasites and Vectors

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Jahfari, Setareh ^a   Fonville, Manoj ^a   Hengeveld, Paul ^a   Reusken, Chantal ^a   Scholte, Ernst Jan ^b   Takken, Willem ^c   Heyman, Paul ^d   Medlock, Jolyon M ^e   Heylen, Dieter ^f   Kleve, Jenny ^g   Sprong, Hein ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

^b National Centre for Monitoring of Vectors (CMV)   (Netherlands)

^c WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d QUEEN ASTRID MILITARY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^e PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^g National Hedgehog and Squirrel Asylum   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Anaplasma phagocytophylum; Candidatus N. mikurensis; Emerging zoonoses; I. ricinus; Vector borne disease

Indexed keywords

CHAPERONIN; DNA 16S; GENETIC MARKER;

ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BELGIUM; CELL LYSATE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; EHRLICHIA; EUROPE; FEMALE; FISHER EXACT TEST; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HEALTH CARE; HUMAN; IXODES RICINUS; LIFE CYCLE; MALE; MICROORGANISM; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; NEOEHRLICHIA MIKURENSIS; NETHERLANDS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; NYMPH; PREVALENCE; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RED DEER; RODENT; SHEEP; TICK; UNITED KINGDOM; VEGETATION; WILD BOAR; WILDLIFE; AGED; ANAPLASMATACEAE; ANAPLASMATACEAE INFECTIONS; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; DEER; GENETIC MARKER; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; IXODES; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PHYLOGENY;

ANAPLASMA; ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; CERVUS ELAPHUS; EHRLICHIA; IXODES RICINUS; IXODIDA; NEOEHRLICHIA MIKURENSIS; OVIS ARIES; OVIS ARIES MUSIMON; RODENTIA; SUS SCROFA;

AGED; ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ANAPLASMATACEAE; ANAPLASMATACEAE INFECTIONS; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DEER; EHRLICHIA; EUROPE; FEMALE; GENETIC MARKERS; HUMANS; IXODES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NYMPH; PHYLOGENY; PREVALENCE; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RODENTIA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SHEEP;

EID: 84859836915     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17563305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-3305-5-74     Document Type: Article

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