Prevalence and burden of two rickettsial phylotypes (G021 and G022) in Ixodes pacificus from California by real-time quantitative PCR

Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 280-287

  Cheng, Du ^a   Vigil, Katie ^a   Schanes, Paula ^a   Brown, Richard N ^a   Zhong, Jianmin ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Burden; Ixodes pacificus; Microhabitat; Prevalence; Rickettsia

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVERGREEN; FOREST; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HABITAT; IXODES; IXODES PACIFICUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OAK; PATHOGEN LOAD; PATHOGENICITY; PONDEROSA PINE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RICKETTSIA; SCRUB; UNITED STATES; VEGETATION;

ANIMALS; CALIFORNIA; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DEMOGRAPHY; IXODES; PHYLOGENY; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RICKETTSIA; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

IXODES PACIFICUS; IXODES SCAPULARIS; IXODIDA; RICKETTSIA;

EID: 84877839245     PISSN: 1877959X     EISSN: 18779603     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ttbdis.2012.12.005     Document Type: Article

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