Pathogen prevalence in ticks collected from the vegetation and livestock in Nigeria

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 78, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 2562-2568

  Reye, Anna L ^a   Arinola, Olatunbosun G ^b   Hübschen, Judith M ^a   Muller, Claude P ^a  

^a LUXEMBOURG INSTITUTE OF HEALTH   (Luxembourg)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL HEALTH; BORRELIA SPECIES; DISEASE VECTORS; ECONOMIC LOSS; INFECTION RATES; MIXED INFECTIONS; NIGERIA; SUBTROPICAL REGIONS;

AGRICULTURE; BACTERIA; FEEDING; LOSSES; VEGETATION; VETERINARY MEDICINE;

PATHOGENS;

ANIMAL; BACTERIUM; CATTLE; DISEASE PREVALENCE; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; PATHOGENICITY; PROTOZOAN; PUBLIC HEALTH; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SUBTROPICAL REGION; TROPICAL REGION;

ANIMAL; APICOMPLEXA; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE CARRIER; DNA SEQUENCE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LIVESTOCK; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NIGERIA; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PLANT; TICK;

ANIMALS; APICOMPLEXA; BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; DISEASE VECTORS; LIVESTOCK; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NIGERIA; PLANTS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TICKS;

NIGERIA;

ANAPLASMA; ANIMALIA; BABESIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BORRELIA; BOS; COXIELLA BURNETII; EHRLICHIA; IXODIDA; PROTOZOA; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA AFRICAE; THEILERIA; THEILERIA MUTANS;

EID: 84861142978     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.06686-11     Document Type: Article

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