Erratum: Expression of Concern: Molecular Evidence for the Presence of Rickettsia Felis in the Feces of Wild-living African Apes (PLoS ONE (2013) 8:2 (e54679) DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0054679);Molecular Evidence for the Presence of Rickettsia Felis in the Feces of Wild-living African Apes

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Keita, Alpha Kabinet ^a,b   Socolovschi, Cristina ^a   Ahuka Mundeke, Steve ^b   Ratmanov, Pavel ^a   Butel, Christelle ^b   Ayouba, Ahidjo ^b   Inogwabini, Bila Isia ^c   Muyembe Tamfum, Jean Jacques ^d   Mpoudi Ngole, Eitel ^e   Delaporte, Eric ^b   Peeters, Martine ^b   Fenollar, Florence ^a   Raoult, Didier ^a  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTPELLIER   (France)

^c Projet Lac Tumba   (Congo)

^d Clinique Universitaire de Kinshasa   (Congo)

^e Institute of Medical Research and Medicinal Plant Studies Yaounde   (Cameroon)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN A; CITRATE SYNTHASE; OMPA OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CENTRAL AFRICA; CHIMPANZEE; CITRATE SYNTHASE GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; FECES ANALYSIS; GENE SEQUENCE; GORILLA; INSECT BITE; MOLECULAR PROBE; MOSQUITO; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RICKETTSIA FELIS; WILD ANIMAL; AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; FECES; GENETICS; HOMINID; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; RICKETTSIACEAE INFECTION;

AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; AFRICA, CENTRAL; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; CITRATE (SI)-SYNTHASE; CULICIDAE; DNA, BACTERIAL; FECES; HOMINIDAE; INSECT BITES AND STINGS; RICKETTSIA FELIS; RICKETTSIA INFECTIONS;

EID: 84873562938     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0278003     Document Type: Erratum

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