Rickettsia felis in cat fleas, Ctenocephalides felis parasitizing opossums, San Bernardino County, California

Medical and Veterinary Entomology

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 458-462

  Abramowicz, K F ^a   Wekesa, J W ^b   Nwadike, C N ^b   Zambrano, M L ^a   Karpathy, S E ^a   Cecil, D ^c   Burns, J ^d   Hu, R ^d   Eremeeva, M E ^a  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b Mosquito and Vector Control Program   (United States)

^c Department of Information Services ^*  (United States)

^d NATL CENTER FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

Cat flea; Genotyping; Opossums; Rickettsia felis

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CITRATE SYNTHASE;

BACTERIAL DISEASE; BACTERIUM; DISEASE PREVALENCE; ENDEMIC SPECIES; FELID; FLEA; GENOTYPE; MARSUPIAL; PARASITE;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CTENOCEPHALIDES; DISEASE CARRIER; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; FLEA INFESTATION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; OPOSSUM; PARASITOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RICKETTSIA FELIS; RICKETTSIACEAE INFECTION; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CALIFORNIA; CITRATE (SI)-SYNTHASE; CTENOCEPHALIDES; DIDELPHIS; FEMALE; FLEA INFESTATIONS; GENOTYPE; INSECT VECTORS; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RICKETTSIA FELIS; RICKETTSIA INFECTIONS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

CALIFORNIA; LOS ANGELES [CALIFORNIA]; ORANGE; SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY; UNITED STATES; VIRGINIA;

CTENOCEPHALIDES; CTENOCEPHALIDES FELIS; DIDELPHIDAE; DIDELPHIS VIRGINIANA; MURINAE; RICKETTSIA FELIS; SIPHONAPTERA (FLEAS);

EID: 84870389903     PISSN: 0269283X     EISSN: 13652915     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2915.2012.01017.x     Document Type: Article

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