Natural Blood Feeding and Temperature Shift Modulate the Global Transcriptional Profile of Rickettsia rickettsii Infecting Its Tick Vector

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Galletti, Maria Fernanda B M ^a   Fujita, André ^a   Nishiyama Jr , Milton Y ^a   Malossi, Camila D ^a   Pinter, Adriano ^b   Soares, João F ^a   Daffre, Sirlei ^a   Labruna, Marcelo B ^a   Fogaça, Andréa C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b SUPERINTENDÊNCIA DE CONTROLE DE ENDEMIAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENZYME; FREE RADICAL; PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTOME;

AMBLYOMMA; AMBLYOMMA AUREOLATUM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL LOAD; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BLOOD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CARRIER; DNA MICROARRAY; DRUG TARGETING; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEEDING; FEMALE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NATURAL HOST; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA RICKETTSII; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TEMPERATURE; TYPE IV SECRETION SYSTEM; UPREGULATION; VACCINE PRODUCTION;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL SECRETION SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENES, BACTERIAL; GUINEA PIGS; INSECT VECTORS; MICROFLUIDICS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RICKETTSIA INFECTIONS; RICKETTSIA RICKETTSII; RNA, MESSENGER; TEMPERATURE; TICKS;

EID: 84885399684     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0077388     Document Type: Article

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