Spotted fever group rickettsiae in ticks in Turkey

Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 213-218

  Orkun, Ömer ^a   Karaer, Zafer ^a   Çakmak, Ayşe ^a   Nalbantoǧlu, Serpil ^a  

^a ANKARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Molecular detection; Phylogenetic analysis; Spotted fever group rickettsiae; Ticks; Turkey

Indexed keywords

CITRATE SYNTHASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DERMACENTOR MARGINATUS; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; GLTA GENE; HAEMAPHYSALIS; HAEMAPHYSALIS PARVA; HUMAN; HYALOMMA; HYALOMMA AEGYPTIUM; HYALOMMA EXCAVATUM; HYALOMMA MARGINATUM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; NYMPH; OMPA GENE; PATHOGENICITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHIPICEPHALUS; RHIPICEPHALUS AFRICAE; RHIPICEPHALUS TURANICUS; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA AESCHLIMANNII; RICKETTSIA HOOGSTRAALII; RICKETTSIA RAOULTII; RICKETTSIA SLOVACA; RICKETTSIACEAE INFECTION; SPOTTED FEVER GROUP RICKETTSIA; TICK; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; WILD ANIMAL;

ANIMALIA; DERMACENTOR MARGINATUS; HAEMAPHYSALIS PARVA; HYALOMMA; HYALOMMA MARGINATUM; IXODIDA; RHIPICEPHALUS TURANICUS; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA SLOVACA; RICKETTSIACEAE;

MOLECULAR DETECTION; PHYLOGENETIC ANALYSIS; SPOTTED FEVER GROUP RICKETTSIAE; TICKS; TURKEY;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; IXODIDAE; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NYMPH; RICKETTSIA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TURKEY;

EID: 84892881412     PISSN: 1877959X     EISSN: 18779603     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ttbdis.2012.11.018     Document Type: Article

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