Tick-borne zoonotic pathogens in ticks feeding on the common nightingale including a novel strain of Rickettsia sp.

Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 265-268

  Dubska, Lenka ^a   Literak, Ivan ^b   Kverek, Pavel ^c   Roubalova, Eva ^d   Kocianova, Elena ^e   Taragelova, Veronika ^f  

^a MASARYK MEMORIAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY AND PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCES   (Czech Republic)

^c Biology Centre of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic ^*  (Czech Republic)

^d INSTITUTE OF PARASITOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^e INSTITUTE OF VIROLOGY   (Slovakia)

^f INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Anaplasma phagocytophilum; Babesia sp. EU1; Borrelia garinii; Common nightingale; Ixodes ricinus; Rickettsia helvetica; Tick

Indexed keywords

ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ARTICLE; BABESIA; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BIRD; BORRELIA GARINII; COMMON NIGHTINGALE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CZECH REPUBLIC; FEEDING; FEMALE; IXODES RICINUS; LUSCINIA MEGARHYNCHOS; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA BELLII; RICKETTSIA HELVETICA; SAMPLE; TAXON; TICK; TYPE STRAIN; ZOONOSIS;

ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; BABESIA; BABESIA SP.; BORRELIA; BORRELIA GARINII; IXODES RICINUS; IXODIDA; LUSCINIA MEGARHYNCHOS; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA BELLII; RICKETTSIA HELVETICA; RICKETTSIA SP.;

EID: 84865971322     PISSN: 1877959X     EISSN: 18779603     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ttbdis.2012.06.001     Document Type: Article

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