Experimental infection of cotton rats and bobwhite quail with Rickettsia parkeri

Parasites and Vectors

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Moraru, Gail Miriam ^a   Goddard, Jerome ^b   Paddock, Christopher D ^c   Varela Stokes, Andrea ^a  

^a MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Cotton rat; Experimental infection; Quail; Rickettsia parkeri

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIRD DISEASE; BLOOD; CELL CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUTHANASIA; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; QUAIL; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RICKETTSIA PARKERI; SEROLOGY; SKIN; SPLEEN; TISSUES; VERO CELL; ANIMAL; BACTEREMIA; CHLOROCEBUS AETHIOPS; COLINUS; COMPLICATION; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GENETICS; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; IXODIDAE; LARVA; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; NYMPH; PARASITE VECTOR; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIACEAE INFECTION; SIGMODONTINAE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TICK INFESTATION; TRANSMISSION; VERO CELL LINE;

AMBLYOMMA MACULATUM; ANIMALIA; COLINUS VIRGINIANUS; IXODIDA; PHASIANIDAE; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA PARKERI; RICKETTSIACEAE; SIGMODON;

ANIMALS; ARACHNID VECTORS; BACTEREMIA; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; COLINUS; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; HUMANS; IXODIDAE; LARVA; MALE; MODELS, ANIMAL; NYMPH; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA INFECTIONS; SIGMODONTINAE; SKIN; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SPLEEN; TICK INFESTATIONS; VERO CELLS;

EID: 84874941647     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17563305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-3305-6-70     Document Type: Article

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