Prevalence of tick-borne pathogens in adult Dermacentor spp. Ticks from nine collection sites in France

Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 226-236

  Bonnet, S ^a   De La Fuente, J ^b,c   Nicollet, P ^d   Liu, X ^a   Madani, N ^a   Blanchard, B ^e   Maingourd, C ^d   Alongi, A ^f   Torina, A ^g   Fernandez De Mera I G ^b   Vicente, J ^b   George, J C ^h   Vayssier Taussat, M ^a   Joncour, G ⁱ  

^a FRENCH AGENCY FOR FOOD   (France)

^b INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIÓN EN RECURSOS CINEGÉTICOS IREC CSIC UCLM JCCM   (Spain)

^c OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d LASAT Laboratoire d'Analyses Sèvres Atlantique   (France)

^e Adiagene   (France)

^f ISTITUTO ZOOPROFILATTICO SPERIMENTALE DELLA SICILIA A MIRRI   (Italy)

^g Lab di Entomologia e Controllo Vettori Ambientali   (Italy)

^h Lab di Entomologia e Controllo Vettori Ambientali ^*  (France)

ⁱ Technical Veterinary Groups National Society SNGTV Groupe Vétérinaire de Callac   (France)

Author keywords

Anaplasma; Babesia; Bartonella; Borrelia burgdorferi; Coxiella burnetii; Dermacentor; Epidemiology; Francisella tularensis.; Ixodes ricinus; Theileria; Tick

Indexed keywords

ANAPLASMA MARGINALE; ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ARTICLE; AUTUMN; BABESIA; BARTONELLA; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CONTROLLED STUDY; COXIELLA BURNETII; DERMACENTOR MARGINATUS; DERMACENTOR RETICULATUS; FEMALE; FRANCE; FRANCISELLA TULARENSIS; HUMAN; IXODES RICINUS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIXED INFECTION; NONHUMAN; PARASITE PREVALENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPRING; THEILERIA; TICK BORNE DISEASE; ANIMAL; DERMACENTOR; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; IXODES; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE VECTOR; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PIROPLASMIDA; PREVALENCE; TICK-BORNE DISEASES; TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; ARACHNID VECTORS; BASE SEQUENCE; DERMACENTOR; FEMALE; FRANCE; GEOGRAPHY; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; IXODES; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PIROPLASMIDA; PREVALENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TICK-BORNE DISEASES;

EID: 84875388198     PISSN: 15303667     EISSN: 15577759     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/vbz.2011.0933     Document Type: Article

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