The composition and transmission of microbiome in hard tick, Ixodes persulcatus, during blood meal

Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 864-870

  Zhang, Xue Chao ^a   Yang, Zhang Nv ^b   Lu, Bo ^a   Ma, Xiao Fang ^a   Zhang, Chuan Xi ^a   Xu, Hai Jun ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b ZHEJIANG PROVINCIAL CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (China)

Author keywords

16S ribosomal RNA; Blood meal; Ixodes persulcatus; Microbiome; Tick borne pathogen

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA; RNA 16S; BACTERIAL DNA;

ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ARTICLE; BORRELIA AFZELII; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA GARINII; CHINA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EHRLICHIA CHAFFEENSIS; IXODES PERSULCATUS; LYME DISEASE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIOME; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; RNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TICK; TICK BITE; YERSINIA PESTIS; ANIMAL; ARACHNID VECTOR; CHEMISTRY; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; GENETICS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; IXODES; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROFLORA; RAT; TICK-BORNE DISEASES; TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; ARACHNID VECTORS; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CHINA; DNA, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; IXODES; LYME DISEASE; MALE; MICROBIOTA; PREVALENCE; RATS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TICK-BORNE DISEASES;

EID: 84907689662     PISSN: 1877959X     EISSN: 18779603     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ttbdis.2014.07.009     Document Type: Article

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