Detection of human bacterial pathogens in ticks collected from Louisiana black bears (Ursus americanus luteolus)

Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 191-196

  Leydet, Brian F ^a   Liang, Fang Ting ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bear; Borrelia; Rickettsia; Tick borne pathogens; Ticks; Vector borne disease

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

AMBLYOMMA AMERICANUM; AMBLYOMMA MACULATUM; ARTICLE; BABESIA MICROTI; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BEAR; BORRELIA BISSETTII; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; DERMACENTOR VARIABILIS; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ENDOSYMBIONT; FEMALE; IXODES SCAPULARIS; LYME DISEASE; MALE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE VECTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RICKETTSIA AMBLYOMMII; RICKETTSIA ANDEANAE; RICKETTSIA PARKERI; RICKETTSIOSIS; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SYMBIONT; TICK; TICK INFESTATION; UNITED STATES; URSUS AMERICANUS LUTEOLUS;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; DNA, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOUISIANA; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TICK INFESTATIONS; URSIDAE;

AMBLYOMMA AMERICANUM; AMBLYOMMA MACULATUM; ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; BABESIA MICROTI; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BORRELIA; BORRELIA BISSETTII; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; DERMACENTOR VARIABILIS; EHRLICHIA; IXODES SCAPULARIS; IXODIDA; MAMMALIA; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA AMBLYOMMII; RICKETTSIA PARKERI; URSUS AMERICANUS; URSUS AMERICANUS LUTEOLUS;

EID: 84875258187     PISSN: 1877959X     EISSN: 18779603     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ttbdis.2012.12.002     Document Type: Article

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