Identification of Tick-Borne Pathogens in Ticks Feeding on Humans in Turkey

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2014, Pages

  Orkun, Ömer ^a   Karaer, Zafer ^a   Çakmak, Ayşe ^a   Nalbantoğlu, Serpil ^a  

^a ANKARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA 16S;

ARTICLE; BABESIA; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; DERMACENTOR MARGINATUS; DNA EXTRACTION; HAEMAPHYSALIS; HAEMAPHYSALIS PARVA; HUMAN; HYALOMMA; HYALOMMA AEGYPTIUM; HYALOMMA EXCAVATUM; HYALOMMA MARGINATUM; IXODES; MICROORGANISM DETECTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RHIPICEPHALUS; RHIPICEPHALUS BURSA; RHIPICEPHALUS SANGUINEUS; RHIPICEPHALUS TURANICUS; RICKETTSIA AESCHLIMANNII; RICKETTSIA HOOGSTRAALII; RICKETTSIA SLOVACA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TICK; TICK BORNE DISEASE; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); ANIMAL; FEMALE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; PARASITOLOGY; RICKETTSIA; TICK-BORNE DISEASES; TURKEY;

ANIMALS; BABESIA; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RICKETTSIA; TICK-BORNE DISEASES; TICKS; TURKEY;

EID: 84923176086     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0003067     Document Type: Article

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