Rickettsiaceae and Anaplasmataceae infections in Ixodes ricinus ticks from urban and natural forested areas of Poland

Parasites and Vectors

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Welc Falȩciak, Renata ^a   Kowalec, Maciej ^a   Karbowiak, Grzegorz ^b   Bajer, Anna ^a   Behnke, Jerzy M ^c   Siński, Edward ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^b W STEFA SKI INSTITUTE OF PARASITOLOGY   (Poland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anaplasma; Ehrlichia; Ixodes ricinus; Natural habitats; Neoehrlichia; Prevalence; Rickettsia; Tick; Tick density; Urban habitats

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ANAPLASMATACEAE INFECTION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EHRLICHIA; FEMALE; FORESTRY; IXODES RICINUS; MALE; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MIXED INFECTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; NYMPH; POLAND; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; RELATIVE DENSITY; RICKETTSIACEAE INFECTION; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; URBAN AREA; ANAPLASMATACEAE; ANAPLASMATACEAE INFECTIONS; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; DNA SEQUENCE; FOREST; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; IXODES; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; RICKETTSIACEAE; RICKETTSIACEAE INFECTIONS; TICK INFESTATIONS;

BACTERIAL DNA; RIBOSOME DNA;

ANAPLASMATACEAE; ANAPLASMATACEAE INFECTIONS; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; FEMALE; FORESTS; HUMANS; IXODES; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NYMPH; PHYLOGENY; POLAND; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PREVALENCE; RICKETTSIACEAE; RICKETTSIACEAE INFECTIONS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TICK INFESTATIONS;

EID: 84899110951     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17563305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-3305-7-121     Document Type: Article

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