Feeding period required by Amblyomma aureolatum ticks for transmission of Rickettsia rickettsii to vertebrate hosts

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 20, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 1504-1510

  Saraiva, Danilo G ^a,b   Soares, Herbert S ^a   Soares, João Fábio ^a   Labruna, Marcelo B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b Bicho do Mato Instituto de Pesquisa   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY;

ADULT; AMBLYOMMA; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BRAZIL; EDEMA; FATALITY; FEEDING; FEMALE; GUINEA PIG; HOST; MALE; NECROSIS; NONHUMAN; NYMPH; PARASITOLOGY IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE ASSAY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RICKETTSIA RICKETTSII; ROCKY MOUNTAIN SPOTTED FEVER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEROCONVERSION; TICK BORNE DISEASE; TICK INFESTATION; ANIMAL; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE MODEL; DOG; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; IXODIDAE; MICROBIOLOGY; MORTALITY; PARASITE VECTOR; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; ARTHROPOD VECTORS; BRAZIL; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; DOGS; FEMALE; GUINEA PIGS; HUMANS; IXODIDAE; MALE; MORTALITY; NYMPH; RICKETTSIA RICKETTSII; ROCKY MOUNTAIN SPOTTED FEVER;

EID: 84906262939     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid2009.140189     Document Type: Article

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