Importation of exotic ticks and tick-borne spotted fever group rickettsiae into the United States by migrating songbirds

Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 127-134

  Mukherjee, Nabanita ^a   Beati, Lorenza ^b   Sellers, Michael ^a   Burton, Laquita ^b   Adamson, Steven ^a   Robbins, Richard G ^c   Moore, Frank ^a   Karim, Shahid ^a  

^a University of Southern Mississippi   (United States)

^b GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Armed Forces Pest Management Board   (United States)

Author keywords

Exotic ticks; Migratory songbirds; SFGR; Tick molecular ecology

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; DNA 12S; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMBLYOMMA; AMBLYOMMA CALCARATUM; AMBLYOMMA LONGIROSTRE; AMBLYOMMA MACULATUM; AMBLYOMMA NODOSUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CLADISTICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; EXOTIC SPECIES; GENE CLUSTER; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HAEMAPHYSALIS; HAEMAPHYSALIS JUXTAKOCHI; HAEMAPHYSALIS LEPORISPALUSTRIS; MIGRATORY SPECIES; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OMPA GENE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RICKETTSIA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SONGBIRD; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; SPOTTED FEVER GROUP RICKETTSIA; SPRING; TICK; UNITED STATES; ZOONOSIS;

AMBLYOMMA CALCARATUM; AMBLYOMMA LONGIROSTRE; AMBLYOMMA MACULATUM; AMBLYOMMA NODOSUM; AVES; HAEMAPHYSALIS JUXTAKOCHI; HAEMAPHYSALIS LEPORISPALUSTRIS; IXODIDA; PASSERIFORMES; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA AFRICAE; RICKETTSIA AMBLYOMMII; RICKETTSIA PARKERI; RICKETTSIA SP.; RICKETTSIACEAE; VERTEBRATA;

EXOTIC TICKS; MIGRATORY SONGBIRDS; SFGR; TICK MOLECULAR ECOLOGY;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; BIRD DISEASES; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA INFECTIONS; SONGBIRDS; TICKS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84892874733     PISSN: 1877959X     EISSN: 18779603     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ttbdis.2013.09.009     Document Type: Article

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