Spotted fever group rickettsiae in ixodid ticks in oromia, ethiopia

Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 8-15

  Kumsa, Bersissa ^a   Socolovschi, Cristina ^a   Raoult, Didier ^a   Parola, Philippe ^a  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Ethiopia; Ixodid ticks domestic animals spotted fever rickettsiae oromia

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

AMBLYOMMA; AMBLYOMMA COHAERENS; AMBLYOMMA GEMMA; AMBLYOMMA VARIEGATUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHIOPIA; HYALOMMA; HYALOMMA RUFIPES; HYALOMMA TRUNCATUM; IXODIDAE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHIPICEPHALUS; RHIPICEPHALUS DECOLORATUS; RHIPICEPHALUS PRAETEXTATUS; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA AFRICAE; SPOTTED FEVER GROUP RICKETTSIAE; ANIMAL; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; FEMALE; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; PARASITOLOGY; PREVALENCE; RICKETTSIA INFECTIONS; TICK INFESTATIONS; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; DNA, BACTERIAL; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; IXODIDAE; MALE; PREVALENCE; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA INFECTIONS; TICK INFESTATIONS; ZOONOSES;

EID: 84928208389     PISSN: 1877959X     EISSN: 18779603     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ttbdis.2014.08.001     Document Type: Article

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