Portuguese hosts for Ornithodoros erraticus ticks

Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases

Volumn 13, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 775-777

  Palma, Mariana ^a   Lopes De Carvalho, Isabel ^a   Osório, Hugo ^a   Zé Zé, Líbia ^a   Cutler, Sally J ^b   Núncio, Maria Sofia ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH DR RICARDO JORGE   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EAST LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Blood meal host; Borrelia hispanica reservoir; Ornithodoros erraticus; Portugal

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BLOOD MEAL ANALYSIS; BORRELIA; BORRELIA HISPANICA; DISEASE CARRIER; HOST; HOST RANGE; HUMAN; LIVESTOCK; NONHUMAN; ORNITHODOROS ERRATICUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RODENT; SWINE; TICK; ANIMAL; BORRELIA INFECTION; BOVINAE; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENETICS; MICROBIOLOGY; MURIDAE; ORNITHODOROS; PARASITE VECTOR; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PORTUGAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SHEEP; SONGBIRD; TICK INFESTATION; TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALIA; ARGASIDAE; ARTHROPODA; AVES; BORRELIA HISPANICA; BOVINAE; IXODIDA; ORNITHODOROS ERRATICUS; OVIS ARIES; RODENTIA; SPIROCHAETALES; SUIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; ARACHNID VECTORS; BORRELIA; CATTLE; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; HUMANS; MURIDAE; ORNITHODOROS; PASSERIFORMES; PORTUGAL; RELAPSING FEVER; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SHEEP; SWINE; TICK INFESTATIONS;

EID: 84885461887     PISSN: 15303667     EISSN: 15577759     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/vbz.2012.1070     Document Type: Article

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