Rickettsia parkeri and Rickettsia montanensis, Kentucky and Tennessee, USA

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 20, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 1750-1752

  Pagac, Benedict B ^a   Miller, Melissa K ^a   Mazzei, Meagan C ^a   Nielsen, David H ^a   Jiang, Ju ^b   Richards, Allen L ^b  

^a US Army Public Health Command Region North   (United States)

^b NAVAL MEDICAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN A;

ADULT; AMBLYOMMA MACULATUM; ARTICLE; DERMACENTOR VARIABILIS; FESCUE; GENE; GRASS; LESPEDEZA CUNEATA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OMPA GENE; OMPB GENE; PANICUM VIRGATUM; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; RICKETTSIA MONTANENSIS; RICKETTSIA PARKERI; SORGHASTRUM NUTANS; UNITED STATES; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; IXODIDAE; MICROBIOLOGY; RICKETTSIA;

ANIMALS; IXODIDAE; KENTUCKY; RICKETTSIA; TENNESSEE;

EID: 84907296696     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid2010.140175     Document Type: Article

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