Detection of Francisella-like endosymbiont in Hyalomma rufipes from Ethiopia

Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 818-820

  Szigeti, Alexandra ^a   Kreizinger, Zsuzsa ^a   Hornok, Sándor ^b   Abichu, Getachew ^b   Gyuranecz, Miklós ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^b SZENT ISTVÁN UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Africa; Ethiopia; Francisella tularensis; Francisella like endosymbiont; Hyalomma

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S; BACTERIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOSYMBIONT; ETHIOPIA; FRANCISELLA LIKE ENDOSYMBIONT; FRANCISELLA TULARENSIS; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; HYALOMMA; HYALOMMA RUFIPES; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SDHA GENE; TUL4 GENE; ANIMAL; ARACHNID VECTOR; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; FRANCISELLA; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; IXODIDAE; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; SYMBIOSIS; TULAREMIA;

ANIMALS; ARACHNID VECTORS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, BACTERIAL; ETHIOPIA; FRANCISELLA; FRANCISELLA TULARENSIS; HUMANS; IXODIDAE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SYMBIOSIS; TULAREMIA;

EID: 84907701591     PISSN: 1877959X     EISSN: 18779603     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ttbdis.2014.06.002     Document Type: Article

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