Bartonella prevalence and genetic diversity in small mammals from Ethiopia

Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 164-175

  Meheretu, Yonas ^a,b   Leirs, Herwig ^a,c   Welegerima, Kiros ^b   Breno, Matteo ^a   Tomas, Zewdneh ^b   Kidane, Dawit ^b   Girmay, Kokob ^b   De Bellocq, Joëlle Goüy ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b MEKELLE UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^c DANISH INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Denmark)

^d INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE BIOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Bartonella; Ethiopia; Genotypes; Prevalence; Small mammals

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; RNA POLYMERASE BETA SUBUNIT;

ARTICLE; BARTONELLA; BARTONELLOSIS; DNA EXTRACTION; ECTOPARASITE; ECTOPARASITOSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; FLEA INFESTATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HOST; MALE; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SMALL MAMMAL; TAXONOMIC IDENTIFICATION;

ANIMALS; BARTONELLA; BARTONELLA INFECTIONS; BASE SEQUENCE; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; HOST SPECIFICITY; HUMANS; LIVER; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MURIDAE; PHYLOGENY; PREVALENCE; RODENT DISEASES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEX FACTORS; SHREWS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84875180237     PISSN: 15303667     EISSN: 15577759     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/vbz.2012.1004     Document Type: Article

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