Sympatric occurrence of Ixodes ricinus, Dermacentor reticulatus and Haemaphysalis concinna ticks and Rickettsia and Babesia species in Slovakia

Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 600-605

  Švehlová, Andrea ^a   Berthová, Lenka ^a   Sallay, Balázs ^a   Boldiš, Vojtech ^b   Sparagano, Olivier A E ^c   Špitalská, Eva ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF VIROLOGY   (Slovakia)

^b HPL spol s ro   (Slovakia)

^c NORTHUMBRIA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Babesia spp.; Dermacentor reticulatus; Haemaphysalis concinna; Ixodes ricinus; Rickettsia spp.; Sympatric occurrence; Vojka nad Dunajom

Indexed keywords

RNA 18S; RNA 23S; BACTERIAL RNA; PROTOZOAL RNA;

ARTICLE; BABESIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DERMACENTOR RETICULATUS; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DNA EXTRACTION; FEMALE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GLTA GENE; HAEMAPHYSALIS; HAEMAPHYSALIS CONCINNA; IXODES RICINUS; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PIROPLASMOSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIOSIS; RNA GENE; SCA4 GENE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SLOVAKIA; SPECIES COMPARISON; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; GENETICS; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; IXODIDAE; MICROBIOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALIA; BABESIA; BABESIA CANIS; BABESIA SP. EU1; DERMACENTOR RETICULATUS; HAEMAPHYSALIS CONCINNA; IXODES RICINUS; IXODIDA; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA HELVETICA; RICKETTSIA MONACENSIS; RICKETTSIA SLOVACA;

ANIMALS; BABESIA; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; IXODIDAE; RICKETTSIA; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, PROTOZOAN; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 23S; SLOVAKIA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84904051230     PISSN: 1877959X     EISSN: 18779603     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ttbdis.2014.04.010     Document Type: Article

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