Presence of an emerging subclone of Francisella tularensis holarctica in Ixodes ricinus ticks from south-western Germany

Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases

Volumn 4, Issue 1-2, 2013, Pages 93-100

  Gehringer, Heike ^a   Schacht, Erik ^c   Maylaender, Nicole ^a   Zeman, Ella ^a   Kaysser, Philipp ^a   Oehme, Rainer ^b   Pluta, Silvia ^d   Splettstoesser, Wolf D ^a  

^a BUNDESWEHR INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b Wiederholdstr 15   (Germany)

^c BOEHRINGER INGELHEIM PHARMA GMBH AND CO KG   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dermacentor spp.; Francisella tularensis; Francisella like endosymbionts (FLEs); Franco Iberian clone; Ixodes spp.; Ticks

Indexed keywords

16S RRNA GENE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CLONE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DERMACENTOR MARGINATUS; FEMALE; FRANCISELLA TULARENSIS; FRANCISELLA TULARENSIS HOLARCTICA; GENE SEQUENCE; GERMANY; IMAGO; IXODES RICINUS; LPNA GENE; MALE; NEIGHBOR JOINING METHOD; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA GENE; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DERMACENTOR; FRANCISELLA TULARENSIS; GENETIC VARIATION; GERMANY; HUMANS; IXODES; PHYLOGENY; TULAREMIA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DERMACENTOR; DERMACENTOR MARGINATUS; DERMACENTOR RETICULATUS; FRANCISELLA; FRANCISELLA TULARENSIS; IXODES; IXODES RICINUS; IXODIDA; IXODIDAE; TABANIDAE;

EID: 84872618658     PISSN: 1877959X     EISSN: 18779603     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ttbdis.2012.09.001     Document Type: Article

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