Rickettsia slovaca and Rickettsia raoultii in Dermacentor marginatus and Dermacentor reticulatus ticks from Slovak Republic

Experimental and Applied Acarology

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 189-197

  Špitalská, Eva ^a   Štefanidesová, Katarína ^a   Kocianová, Elena ^a   Boldiš, Vojtech ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF VIROLOGY   (Slovakia)

^b HPL spol s ro   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Dermacentor marginatus; Dermacentor reticulatus; Rickettsia raoultii; Rickettsia slovaca; Slovakia

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

BACTERIAL DISEASE; BACTERIUM; DISEASE INCIDENCE; DISEASE PREVALENCE; DISEASE VECTOR; HEALTH RISK; PIG; PUBLIC HEALTH; TICK; VEGETATION;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CELL LINE; CLASSIFICATION; DERMACENTOR; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; GENETICS; GUINEA; GUINEA PIG; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIACEAE INFECTION; SLOVAKIA; TIME;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE; DERMACENTOR; DNA, BACTERIAL; GUINEA; GUINEA PIGS; HUMANS; PHYLOGENY; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA INFECTIONS; SLOVAKIA; TIME FACTORS;

SLOVAKIA;

ARTHROPODA; CANIS FAMILIARIS; CAPRA HIRCUS; CAVIA; DERMACENTOR MARGINATUS; DERMACENTOR RETICULATUS; EQUIDAE; IXODES RICINUS; IXODIDA; NEGIBACTERIA; OVIS ARIES; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA SLOVACA; RICKETTSIA SP.; RICKETTSIACEAE;

EID: 84860884174     PISSN: 01688162     EISSN: 15729702     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10493-012-9539-8     Document Type: Article

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