Occurrence of Francisella spp. in Dermacentor reticulatus and Ixodes ricinus ticks collected in eastern Poland

Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 253-257

  Wójcik Fatla, Angelina ^a   Zajac, Violetta ^a   Sawczyn, Anna ^a   Cisak, Ewa ^a   Sroka, Jacek ^a,b   Dutkiewicz, Jacek ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL MEDICINE   (Poland)

^b NATIONAL VETERINARY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Poland)

Author keywords

Dermacentor reticulatus; Eastern Poland; Francisella tularensis subsp. holarctica; Francisella like endosymbionts; Ixodes ricinus

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S; BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; LIPOPROTEIN; RIBOSOME DNA; TUL4 PROTEIN, FRANCISELLA TULARENSIS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DERMACENTOR RETICULATUS; FEMALE; FRANCISELLA; FRANCISELLA LIKE ENDOSYMBIONT; FRANCISELLA TULARENSIS; FRANCISELLA TULARENSIS SUBSPECIES HOLARCTICA; HUNGARY; IXODES RICINUS; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLAND; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RRS GENE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TUL4 GENE; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; DERMACENTOR; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; IXODES; MICROBIOLOGY; PARASITE VECTOR; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; TICK-BORNE DISEASES; TULAREMIA;

DERMACENTOR RETICULATUS; FRANCISELLA; FRANCISELLA TULARENSIS; FRANCISELLA TULARENSIS SUBSP. HOLARCTICA; IXODES RICINUS; IXODIDA;

ANIMALS; ARACHNID VECTORS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DERMACENTOR; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; FEMALE; FRANCISELLA TULARENSIS; HUMANS; IXODES; LIPOPROTEINS; MALE; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; POLAND; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TICK-BORNE DISEASES; TULAREMIA;

EID: 84928203797     PISSN: 1877959X     EISSN: 18779603     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ttbdis.2015.01.005     Document Type: Article

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