Diversity of piroplasms detected in blood-fed and questing ticks from several states in the United States

Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 373-380

  Shock, Barbara C ^a   Moncayo, Abelardo ^b   Cohen, Sara ^b   Mitchell, Elizabeth A ^c   Williamson, Phillip C ^c,d   Lopez, Gaylord ^e   Garrison, Laurel E ^f   Yabsley, Michael J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b TENNESSEE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^d CREATIVE TESTING SOLUTIONS   (United States)

^e Georgia Poison Center   (United States)

^f GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN RESOURCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Amblyomma americanum; Babesia; Cytauxzoon; Dermacentor variabilis; Theileria; Tick transmitted diseases

Indexed keywords

AMBLYOMMA AMERICANUM; AMBLYOMMA CAJENNENSE; AMBLYOMMA MACULATUM; ARTICLE; BABESIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTAUXZOON; CYTAUXZOON FELIS; DERMACENTOR VARIABILIS; DNA EXTRACTION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; IXODES; IXODES SCAPULARIS; IXODES WOODI; LIFE CYCLE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PIROPLASMIDA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; THEILERIA; TICK; UNITED STATES; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; DNA SEQUENCE; DOG; DOG DISEASES; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; IXODIDAE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PARASITE VECTOR; PARASITOLOGY; PREVALENCE; PROTOZOAN INFECTIONS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

AMBLYOMMA; AMBLYOMMA AMERICANUM; AMBLYOMMA CAJENNENSE; AMBLYOMMA MACULATUM; ANIMALIA; BABESIA; CYTAUXZOON; CYTAUXZOON FELIS; DERMACENTOR VARIABILIS; IXODES SCAPULARIS; IXODIDA; ODOCOILEUS VIRGINIANUS; THEILERIA;

PROTOZOAL DNA;

ANIMALS; APPALACHIAN REGION; ARACHNID VECTORS; BABESIA; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, PROTOZOAN; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; HUMANS; IXODIDAE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PIROPLASMIDA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; PROTOZOAN INFECTIONS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TEXAS; THEILERIA;

EID: 84901633989     PISSN: 1877959X     EISSN: 18779603     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ttbdis.2014.01.003     Document Type: Article

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