Anaplasma infections in ticks and reservoir host from Slovakia

Infection, Genetics and Evolution

Volumn 22, Issue , 2014, Pages 265-272

  Víchová, Bronislava ^a   Majláthová, Viktória ^a   Nováková, Mária ^a   Stanko, Michal ^a   Hviščová, Ivana ^a   Pangrácová, Lucia ^a   Chrudimský, Tomáš ^b   Čurlík, Ján ^c   Peťko, Branislav ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Slovakia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Anaplasma; Ixodes ricinus; Rodents; Slovakia; Wild ungulates

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S; BACTERIAL DNA;

ANAPLASMA OVIS; ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ANAPLASMATACEAE INFECTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BOVIDS; CARNIVORE; DISEASE CARRIER; DNA SEQUENCE; DOG; EPIZOOTIOLOGY; GENE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION (SPECIES); GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GROEL GENE; HOST; INFECTION RATE; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; NEOEHRLICHIA MIKURENSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RED DEER; RODENT; ROE DEER; SLOVAKIA; TICK; UNGULATE; ZOONOSIS; ANIMAL TISSUE; CATTLE; CLADISTICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE SEQUENCE; HOST RANGE; IXODES RICINUS; OPERON; RAT; RICKETTSIALES; RNA GENE; SHEEP; TICK BORNE DISEASE; UNITED STATES;

ANAPLASMA; ANAPLASMA OVIS; ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ANAPLASMATACEAE; ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BOS; CANDIDATUS NEOEHRLICHIA MIKURENSIS; CAPREOLUS; EQUIDAE; IXODES RICINUS; IXODIDA; OVIS ARIES; RODENTIA; UNGULATA;

ANAPLASMA; IXODES RICINUS; RODENTS; SLOVAKIA; WILD UNGULATES;

ANAPLASMA; ANAPLASMOSIS; ANIMALS; ARACHNID VECTORS; DEER; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; DOGS; IXODES; RODENTIA; SLOVAKIA;

EID: 84896704882     PISSN: 15671348     EISSN: 15677257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.meegid.2013.06.003     Document Type: Article

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