Rickettsial agents in avian ixodid ticks in northeast Brazil

Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 364-375

  Lugarini, Camile ^a,b,c   Martins, Thiago Fernandes ^d   Ogrzewalska, Maria ^e   de Vasconcelos, Nathália Costa Teixeira ^b   Ellis, Vincenzo A ^f   de Oliveira, Jaqueline Bianque ^b   Pinter, Adriano ^g   Labruna, Marcelo B ^d   Silva, Jean Carlos Ramos ^b,c  

^a Centro Nacional De Pesquisa E Conservação De Aves Silvestres   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL RURAL DE PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

^c Instituto Brasileiro Para Medicina da Conservação Tríade   (Brazil)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^e INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

^g SUPERINTENDÊNCIA DE CONTROLE DE ENDEMIAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Amblyomma; Atlantic forest; Caatinga; Rickettsia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMBLYOMMA; AMBLYOMMA AURICULARIUM; AMBLYOMMA LONGIROSTRE; AMBLYOMMA NODOSUM; AMBLYOMMA PARVUM; AMBLYOMMA VARIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BIRD; BRAZIL; CANDIDATUS RICKETTSIA AMBLYOMMII; CANDIDATUS RICKETTSIA ANDENAE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOREST; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; IXODIDAE; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA BELLII; RICKETTSIA PARKERI; RICKETTSIOSIS; TICK INFESTATION; ANIMAL; BIRD DISEASES; ECOSYSTEM; GENETICS; HOST RANGE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LARVA; MICROBIOLOGY; NYMPH; PREVALENCE; RICKETTSIA INFECTIONS; VETERINARY;

AMBLYOMMA; AMBLYOMMA AURICULARIUM; AMBLYOMMA LONGIROSTRE; AMBLYOMMA NODOSUM; AMBLYOMMA PARVUM; AMBLYOMMA VARIUM; AVES; IXODIDA; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA AMBLYOMMII; RICKETTSIA BELLII; RICKETTSIA PARKERI; RICKETTSIA SP.;

ANIMALS; BIRD DISEASES; BIRDS; BRAZIL; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; HOST SPECIFICITY; IXODIDAE; LARVA; MALE; NYMPH; PREVALENCE; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA INFECTIONS; TICK INFESTATIONS;

EID: 84928207843     PISSN: 1877959X     EISSN: 18779603     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ttbdis.2015.02.011     Document Type: Article

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