Proposed vector candidate: Leptotrombidium palpale for Shimokoshi type Orientia tsutsugamushi

Microbiology and Immunology

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 111-117

  Seto, Junji ^a   Suzuki, Yu ^a   Otani, Katsumi ^b   Qiu, Yongjin ^c   Nakao, Ryo ^c   Sugimoto, Chihiro ^c   Abiko, Chieko ^a  

^a YAMAGATA PREFECTURAL INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Japan)

^b YAMAGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Leptotrombidium palpale; Orientia tsutsugamushi; Shimokoshi type; Vector

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; RNA 16S;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; DNA SCREENING; GENE PRODUCT; GENE TARGETING; JAPAN; LARVAL STAGE; LEPTOTROMBIDIUM; LEPTOTROMBIDIUM PALPALE; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORIENTIA TSUTSUGAMUSHI; PARASITE EXAMINATION; PARASITE VECTOR; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA GENE; RODENT; SCRUB TYPHUS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TROMBICULIDAE;

ANIMALS; DISEASE VECTORS; DNA, BACTERIAL; JAPAN; LARVA; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MURINAE; ORIENTIA TSUTSUGAMUSHI; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TROMBICULIDAE;

EID: 84873738789     PISSN: 03855600     EISSN: 13480421     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1348-0421.12015     Document Type: Article

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