Rickettsiae of spotted fever group, Borrelia valaisiana, and Coxiella burnetii in ticks on passerine birds and mammals from the Camargue in the south of France

Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases

Volumn 3, Issue 5-6, 2012, Pages 355-360

  Socolovschi, Cristina ^a   Reynaud, Pierre ^b   Kernif, Tahar ^a   Raoult, Didier ^a   Parola, Philippe ^a  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

Author keywords

Borrelia; Camargue; Passerine birds; Rickettsia; Ticks

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

ACROCEPHALUS SCIRPACEUS; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BIRD; BORRELIA; BORRELIA VALAISIANA; CANDIDATUS RICKETTSIA BARBARIAE; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; COXIELLA BURNETII; DNA EXTRACTION; DOG; FRANCE; HORSE; HUMAN; LUSCINIA MEGARHYNCHOS; MAMMAL; MIGRATORY SPECIES; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA AESCHLIMANNII; RICKETTSIA MASSILIAE; RICKETTSIA SLOVACA; SPARROW; TICK; TURDUS MERULA;

ANIMALS; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI GROUP; COXIELLA BURNETII; FEMALE; FRANCE; HUMANS; MALE; MAMMALS; PASSERIFORMES; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RICKETTSIA; TICK INFESTATIONS; TICKS;

ACROCEPHALUS SCIRPACEUS; ARTHROPODA; AVES; BARTONELLA; BORRELIA; BORRELIA VALAISIANA; CANIS FAMILIARIS; COXIELLA BURNETII; EQUIDAE; IXODIDA; LUSCINIA MEGARHYNCHOS; MAMMALIA; PASSER DOMESTICUS; PASSERIFORMES; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA MASSILIAE; RICKETTSIACEAE; TURDUS MERULA;

EID: 84870443412     PISSN: 1877959X     EISSN: 18779603     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ttbdis.2012.10.019     Document Type: Article

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