Spotted fever group rickettsiae identified in Dermacentor marginatus and Ixodes ricinus ticks in Algeria

Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases

Volumn 3, Issue 5-6, 2012, Pages 380-381

  Kernif, Tahar ^a,b   Messaoudene, Dalila ^a   Ouahioune, Soraya ^a   Parola, Philippe ^b   Raoult, Didier ^b   Bitam, Idir ^a  

^a Institut Pasteur d'Algerie   (Algeria)

^b AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

Algeria; Dermacentor marginatus ticks; Ixodes ricinus ticks; R. monacensis; R. slovaca; Rickettsia helvetica

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; CITRATE SYNTHASE; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN A;

ALGERIA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CATTLE; DERMACENTOR MARGINATUS; DNA SEQUENCE; GLTA GENE; IXODES RICINUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OMPA GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA HELVETICA; RICKETTSIA MONACENSIS; RICKETTSIA SLOVACA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; TOURISM; VEGETATION;

ALGERIA; ANIMALS; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; CITRATE (SI)-SYNTHASE; DERMACENTOR; ECTOPARASITIC INFESTATIONS; IXODES; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RICKETTSIA;

BOS; DERMACENTOR MARGINATUS; IXODES RICINUS; IXODIDA; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA HELVETICA; RICKETTSIA MONACENSIS; RICKETTSIA SLOVACA; RICKETTSIACEAE;

EID: 84870436243     PISSN: 1877959X     EISSN: 18779603     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ttbdis.2012.10.012     Document Type: Article

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