Rickettsia raoultii, the predominant Rickettsia found in Dermacentor silvarum ticks in China-Russia border areas

Experimental and Applied Acarology

Volumn 63, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 579-585

  Wen, Jing ^a,b   Jiao, Dan ^b   Wang, Jian hua ^b   Yao, De hai ^b   Liu, Zhi xiang ^b   Zhao, Gang ^b   Ju, Wen dong ^d   Cheng, Cheng ^d   Li, Yi jing ^a   Sun, Yi ^c  

^a NORTHEAST AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Heihe Entry Exit Inspection and Quarantine Bureau   (China)

^c BEIJING INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY AND EPIDEMIOLOGY   (China)

^d Heilongjiang Entry Exit Inspection and Quarantine Bureau   (China)

Author keywords

China Russia border area; D. silvarum; R. raoultii

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DISEASE; BORDER REGION; DISEASE INCIDENCE; DISEASE PREVALENCE; DISEASE VECTOR; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; PUBLIC HEALTH; TICK;

CHINA; RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

DERMACENTOR; DERMACENTOR SILVARUM; IXODIDA; RICKETTSIA;

BACTERIAL DNA; CITRATE SYNTHASE; OMPA OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; CHINA; DERMACENTOR; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA INFECTIONS; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TICK-BORNE DISEASES;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHINA; CITRATE (SI)-SYNTHASE; DERMACENTOR; DNA, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA INFECTIONS; RUSSIA; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TICK-BORNE DISEASES;

EID: 84902533175     PISSN: 01688162     EISSN: 15729702     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10493-014-9792-0     Document Type: Article

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