Microbial population analysis of the salivary glands of ticks; a possible strategy for the surveillance of bacterial pathogens

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2014, Pages

  Qiu, Yongjin ^a   Nakao, Ryo ^a   Ohnuma, Aiko ^a   Kawamori, Fumihiko ^b   Sugimoto, Chihiro ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Shizuoka Prefectural Institute of Public Health and Environmental Science   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA 16S; RIBOSOME DNA;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; COXIELLA; GENE SEQUENCE; GENUS; HAEMAPHYSALIS FLAVA; IXODES OVATUS; IXODES PERSULCATUS; JAPAN; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PYROSEQUENCING; RICKETTSIA; SALIVARY GLAND; SPIROPLASMA; TICK; ANIMAL; BACTERIA; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROFLORA; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; FEMALE; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MALE; MICROBIOTA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SALIVARY GLANDS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TICKS;

EID: 84905455162     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0103961     Document Type: Article

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