Experimental infection with Rickettsia rickettsii in an Amblyomma dubitatum tick colony, naturally infected by Rickettsia bellii

Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 917-923

  Sakai, Renata K ^a   Costa, Francisco B ^b   Ueno, Tatiana E H ^b   Ramirez, Diego G ^b   Soares, João F ^b   Fonseca, Adivaldo H ^a   Labruna, Marcelo B ^b   Barros Battesti, Darci M ^c  

^a FEDERAL RURAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c INSTITUTO BUTANTAN   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Amblyomma dubitatum; Brazil; Rickettsia rickettsii; Spotted fever; Vector competence

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMBLYOMMA; AMBLYOMMA DUBITATUM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EXPERIMENTAL INFECTION; FEMALE; GUINEA PIG; LARVA; MALE; MOLTING; NONHUMAN; NYMPH; PRIMARY INFECTION; RICKETTSIA BELLII; RICKETTSIA RICKETTSII; RICKETTSIACEAE INFECTION; SEROLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; ANIMAL; ARACHNID VECTOR; HUMAN; IXODIDAE; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RICKETTSIA; ROCKY MOUNTAIN SPOTTED FEVER; TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; ARACHNID VECTORS; FEMALE; GUINEA PIGS; HUMANS; IXODIDAE; LARVA; MOLTING; NYMPH; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA RICKETTSII; ROCKY MOUNTAIN SPOTTED FEVER;

EID: 84907689227     PISSN: 1877959X     EISSN: 18779603     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ttbdis.2014.07.003     Document Type: Article

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