Ixodes pacificus ticks maintain embryogenesis and egg hatching after antibiotic treatment of rickettsia endosymbiont

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2014, Pages

  Kurlovs, Andre H ^a   Li, Jinze ^a   Cheng, Du ^a   Zhong, Jianmin ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; TETRACYCLINE; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA EXTRACTION; EGG LAYING; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENDOSYMBIONT; FEEDING; FEMALE; HATCHING; IXODES; IXODES PACIFICUS; LARVA; MALE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RABBIT; REPRODUCTIVE FITNESS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RICKETTSIA; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; DRUG EFFECTS; EMBRYOLOGY; HUMAN; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RICKETTSIACEAE INFECTION; SYMBIOSIS;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CIPROFLOXACIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; IXODES; MALE; OVIPOSITION; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA INFECTIONS; SYMBIOSIS; TETRACYCLINE;

EID: 84905656970     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0104815     Document Type: Article

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