Massive infection of seabird ticks with bacterial species related to Coxiella burnetii

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 80, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 3327-3333

  Wilkinson, David A ^a,b   Dietrich, Muriel ^a,b   Lebarbenchon, Camille ^a,b   Jaeger, Audrey ^b   Le Rouzic, Céline ^a,b   Bastien, Matthieu ^a,b   Lagadec, Erwan ^a,c   McCoy, Karen D ^d   Pascalis, Hervé ^a,c   Le Corre, Matthieu ^b   Dellagi, Koussay ^a,c   Tortosa, Pablo ^a,b,e  

^a Centre de Recherche et de Veille sur les Maladies Emergentes dans l'Ocean Indien (CRVOI)   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LA RÉUNION   (France)

^c INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^d UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

^e CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TROPICS;

BACTERIAL COMMUNITY; BACTERIAL PATHOGENS; HORIZONTAL TRANSMISSIONS; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; NEXT-GENERATION SEQUENCING; STRONG DOMINANCES; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION; WESTERN INDIAN OCEANS;

BACTERIA;

ANIMAL; BIOTA; BIRD; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COXIELLA; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; IXODIDAE; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PARASITOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; RICKETTSIA; TROPIC CLIMATE;

ANIMALS; BIOTA; BIRDS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COXIELLA; IXODIDAE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RICKETTSIA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 84899847084     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00477-14     Document Type: Article

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