New Borrelia species detected in ixodid ticks in Oromia, Ethiopia

Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 401-407

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

^a ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^b AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Amblyomma; Borrelia species; Domestic animals; Ethiopia; Oromia; Rhipicephalus; Ticks

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; RNA 16S;

16S RRNA GENE; ADULT; AMBLYOMMA; AMBLYOMMA COHAERENS; AMBLYOMMA GEMMA; AMBLYOMMA VARIEGATUM; ARTHROPOD LARVA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BORRELIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; FLAB GENE; GENE; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RHIPICEPHALUS; RHIPICEPHALUS DECOLORATUS; YOUNG ADULT; ANIMAL; BORRELIA INFECTION; BOVINE; CAT; CLASSIFICATION; DOG; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; IXODIDAE; LYME DISEASE; MICROBIOLOGY; PARASITE VECTOR; SHEEP; TICK INFESTATION; TRANSMISSION; VETERINARY;

AMBLYOMMA; ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BOOPHILUS; BORRELIA; BORRELIA SP.; BOS; BOVINAE; IXODIDA; IXODIDAE; RHIPICEPHALUS;

ANIMALS; ARACHNID VECTORS; BORRELIA; CATS; CATTLE; DOGS; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; IXODIDAE; LYME DISEASE; MALE; RELAPSING FEVER; RHIPICEPHALUS; SHEEP; TICK INFESTATIONS;

EID: 84928209035     PISSN: 1877959X     EISSN: 18779603     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ttbdis.2015.03.009     Document Type: Article

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