Tick cell culture isolation and growth of Rickettsia raoultii from Dutch Dermacentor reticulatus ticks

Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases

Volumn 3, Issue 5-6, 2012, Pages 349-354

  Alberdi, M Pilar ^a   Nijhof, Ard M ^b,d   Jongejan, Frans ^b,c   Bell Sakyi, Lesley ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^d FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^e INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dermacentor reticulatus; Endosymbionts; Rickettsia raoultii; Tick cell lines; Ticks

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; RNA 16S;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CELL ISOLATION; CELL TRANSFER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DERMACENTOR RETICULATUS; DNA EXTRACTION; EGG; EMBRYO CELL; INOCULATION; NETHERLANDS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OMPB GENE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIMARY CELL CULTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHIPICEPHALUS (BOOPHILUS) MICROPLUS; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA RAOULTII; SCA4 GENE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SUPERNATANT; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELLS, CULTURED; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DERMACENTOR; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; FEMALE; MICROSCOPY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NETHERLANDS; PHYLOGENY; RICKETTSIA; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BOOPHILUS; DERMACENTOR RETICULATUS; IXODIDA; RHIPICEPHALUS; RICKETTSIA;

EID: 84870416093     PISSN: 1877959X     EISSN: 18779603     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ttbdis.2012.10.020     Document Type: Article

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