Rickettsia raoultii, the predominant Rickettsia found in Mongolian Dermacentor nuttalli

Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 227-231

  Speck, Stephanie ^a   Derschum, Henri ^a   Damdindorj, Tserennorov ^b   Dashdavaa, Otgonbaatar ^b   Jiang, Ju ^c   Kaysser, Philipp ^a   Jigjav, Battsetseg ^b   Nyamdorj, Erdenebat ^d   Baatar, Undraa ^b   Munkhbat, Enkhtuya ^b   Choijilsuren, Otgonchimeg ^d   Gerelchuluun, Otgonsuren ^d   Römer, Angelika ^e   Richards, Allen L ^c   Kiefer, Daniel ^a   Scholz, Holger ^a   Wölfel, Roman ^a   Zöller, Lothar ^a   Dobler, Gerhard ^a   Essbauer, Sandra ^a  

^a BUNDESWEHR INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b National Centre for Infectious Diseases with Natural Foci (NCIDNF)   (Mongolia)

^c NAVAL MEDICAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^d NCIDNF   (Mongolia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dermacentor nuttalli; Ixodes persulcatus; Mongolia; Rickettsia raoultii; Rickettsia sibirica

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; DERMACENTOR; DERMACENTOR NUTTALLI; DISEASE CARRIER; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; INCIDENCE; IXODES PERSULCATUS; MALE; MONGOLIA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA RAOULTII; RICKETTSIOSIS; TICK BORNE DISEASE;

ANIMALS; DERMACENTOR; FEMALE; MALE; MONGOLIA; PHYLOGENY; RICKETTSIA;

DERMACENTOR; IXODES PERSULCATUS; IXODIDA; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA SIBIRICA;

EID: 84865976294     PISSN: 1877959X     EISSN: 18779603     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ttbdis.2012.04.001     Document Type: Article

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