Coxiella burnetii in wildlife and ticks in an endemic area

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 108, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 1-7

  Psaroulaki, Anna ^a   Chochlakis, Dimosthenis ^b   Angelakis, Emmanouil ^b,c   Ioannou, Ioannis ^d   Tselentis, Yannis ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b Regional Laboratory of Public Health   (Greece)

^c AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^d VETERINARY SERVICES   (Cyprus)

Author keywords

Birds; Coxiella burnetii; Cyprus; Ticks; Wildlife

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BIRD; COXIELLA BURNETII; CYPRUS; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FOX; HARE; MOUFLON; NONHUMAN; TICK; WILDLIFE; ANIMAL; BLOOD; DOMESTIC SHEEP; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PARASITOLOGY; Q FEVER; RAT; VETERINARY;

AVES; COXIELLA BURNETII; IXODIDA;

BACTERIUM ANTIBODY;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; BIRDS; COXIELLA BURNETII; CYPRUS; FOXES; HARES; Q FEVER; RATS; SHEEP, DOMESTIC; TICKS;

EID: 84911481495     PISSN: 00359203     EISSN: 18783503     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/trstmh/tru134     Document Type: Article

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