Detection of a new Borrelia species in ticks taken from cattle in southwest Ethiopia

Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 266-269

  Mediannikov, Oleg ^a   Abdissa, Alemseged ^b   Socolovschi, Cristina ^a   Diatta, Georges ^c   Trape, Jean François ^c   Raoult, Didier ^a  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b JIMMA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^c INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (Senegal)

Author keywords

Amblyomma cohaerens; Borrelia; Ethiopia.; Hard tick

Indexed keywords

AMBLYOMMA; AMBLYOMMA COHAERENS; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BARTONELLA; BORRELIA; BORRELIA CROCIDURAE; BORRELIA DUTTONII; BORRELIA INFECTION; BORRELIA RECURRENTIS; CATTLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; LYME DISEASE; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; NYMPH; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECURRENT FEVER; RHIPICEPHALUS; RHIPICEPHALUS DECOLORATUS; RHIPICEPHALUS PRAETEXTATUS; RICKETTSIA; TICK; ANIMAL; BORRELIA INFECTIONS; BOVINAE; CATTLE DISEASES; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; IXODIDAE; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PARASITE VECTOR; PARASITOLOGY; RELAPSING FEVER; TICK INFESTATIONS; TRANSMISSION; VETERINARY; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALS; ARACHNID VECTORS; BORRELIA; BORRELIA INFECTIONS; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; IXODIDAE; LYME DISEASE; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RELAPSING FEVER; RHIPICEPHALUS; TICK INFESTATIONS; TICKS; ZOONOSES;

EID: 84875733323     PISSN: 15303667     EISSN: 15577759     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/vbz.2011.0874     Document Type: Article

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