Molecular detection of spotted fever group Rickettsiae associated with ixodid ticks in Egypt

Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 346-359

  Abdel Shafy, Sobhy ^a   Allam, Nesreen A T ^a   Mediannikov, Oleg ^b   Parola, Philippe ^b   Raoult, Didier ^b  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (Egypt)

^b AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

glt; Intergenic spacers; Ixodid ticks; Phylogenetic analysis; Rickettsia; rOmpA; rOmpB; sca4 (gene D)

Indexed keywords

CITRATE SYNTHASE; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN A; PROTEIN DKSA XERC; PROTEIN MPPA PURC; PROTEIN ROMPB; PROTEIN RPME; PROTEIN SCA4; TRANSFER RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BOOPHILUS ANNULATUS; BOUTONNEUSE FEVER; CAMEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COW; EGYPT; GENOTYPE; HYALOMMA ANATOLICUM EXCAVATUM; HYALOMMA DROMEDARII; HYALOMMA IMPELTATUM; HYALOMMA MARGINATUM MARGINATUM; IXODIDAE; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RICKETTSIA AESCHLIMANNII; RICKETTSIA AFRICAE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TICK BORNE DISEASE; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, INTERGENIC; EGYPT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; IXODIDAE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RICKETTSIA;

BOOPHILUS ANNULATUS; CAMELIDAE; HYALOMMA ANATOLICUM EXCAVATUM; HYALOMMA DROMEDARII; IXODIDA; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA AESCHLIMANNII; RICKETTSIA AFRICAE; RICKETTSIACEAE;

EID: 84861047116     PISSN: 15303667     EISSN: 15577759     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/vbz.2010.0241     Document Type: Article

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