Presence of Chlamydiales DNA in ticks and fleas suggests that ticks are carriers of Chlamydiae

Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 359-365

  Croxatto, Antony ^a   Rieille, Nadia ^b   Kernif, Tahar ^c   Bitam, Idir ^c   Aeby, Sébastien ^a   Péter, Olivier ^b   Greub, Gilbert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b Institut Central des Hopitaux Valaisans   (Switzerland)

^c Institut Pasteur d'Algerie   (Algeria)

Author keywords

Arthropods; Carriers; Chlamydiae; Intracellular bacteria; Ticks

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHLAMYDIA; CHLAMYDIACEAE; CLAVICHLAMYDIACEAE; CRIBLAMYDIACEAE; DERMACENTOR MARGINATUS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DNA EXTRACTION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FLEA; HYALOMMA; HYALOMMA DETRITUM; HYALOMMA DROMEDARII; IXODES RICINUS; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MOLECULAR ECOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARACHLAMYDIACEAE; PISCICHLAMYDIACEAE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RHABDOCHLAMYDIACEAE; RHIPICEPHALUS SANGUINEUS; SIMKANIACEAE; SYMBIONT; TICK; WADDLIACEAE; ALGERIA; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; DNA SEQUENCE; FLEA INFESTATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; IXODES; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PARASITE VECTOR; PARASITOLOGY; SWITZERLAND; TICK INFESTATION;

ANIMALIA; ARTHROPODA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHLAMYDIACEAE; CHLAMYDIAE; CHLAMYDIALES; EUKARYOTA; IXODES RICINUS; IXODIDA; PARACHLAMYDIACEAE; RHABDOCHLAMYDIACEAE; SIMKANIACEAE; SIPHONAPTERA (FLEAS); WADDLIACEAE;

BACTERIAL DNA;

ALGERIA; ANIMALS; ARTHROPOD VECTORS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHLAMYDIALES; DNA, BACTERIAL; FLEA INFESTATIONS; GENETIC VARIATION; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; IXODES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SIPHONAPTERA; SWITZERLAND; TICK INFESTATIONS; TICKS;

EID: 84901605908     PISSN: 1877959X     EISSN: 18779603     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ttbdis.2013.11.009     Document Type: Article

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