Diversity of the Bacterial and Fungal Microflora from the Midgut and Cuticle of Phlebotomine Sand Flies Collected in North-Western Iran

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Akhoundi, Mohammad ^a,b   Bakhtiari, Rounak ^c   Guillard, Thomas ^a,e   Baghaei, Ahmad ^b   Tolouei, Reza ^b   Sereno, Denis ^d   Toubas, Dominique ^a,f   Depaquit, Jérôme ^a   Abyaneh, Mehdi Razzaghi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE REIMS CHAMPAGNE ARDENNE   (France)

^b PASTEUR INSTITUTE OF IRAN   (Iran)

^c TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^d University de Montpellier   (France)

^e SERVICE DE DERMATOLOGIE   (France)

^f HÔPITAL MAISON BLANCHE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACINETOBACTER; ACREMONIUM; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CANDIDA; ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; FUNGUS IDENTIFICATION; FUNGUS ISOLATION; FUSARIUM; GEOTRICHUM; INTESTINE FLORA; KLEBSIELLA; KLEBSIELLA OZAENAE; MALE; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MICROCOCCUS LUTEUS; MICROFLORA; NONHUMAN; PANTOEA; PARASITE VECTOR; PENICILLIUM; PHLEBOTOMUS KANDELAKI; PHLEBOTOMUS PAPATASI; PHLEBOTOMUS PERFILIEWI; PHLEBOTOMUS SERGENTI; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS; PSYCHODIDAE; SERRATIA MARCESCENS; SKIN FLORA; VISCERAL LEISHMANIASIS;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; DISEASE VECTORS; FEMALE; FUNGI; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; IRAN; PHLEBOTOMUS; PHYLOGENY;

ACINETOBACTER SP.; ARTHROPODA; ASAIA; ASPERGILLUS; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CANDIDA; ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FUSARIUM; GEOTRICHUM; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE SUBSP. OZAENAE; MICROCOCCUS LUTEUS; NEGIBACTERIA; PANTOEA SP.; PENICILLIUM; PHLEBOTOMINAE; PHLEBOTOMUS PAPATASI; POSIBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS; SERRATIA MARCESCENS;

EID: 84870598521     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0050259     Document Type: Article

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