Bacteria of the genus Rickettsia in ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) collected from birds in Costa Rica

Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 478-482

  Ogrzewalska, Maria ^a   Literák, Ivan ^b   Capek, Miroslav ^c   Sychra, Oldřich ^b   Calderón, Víctor Álvarez ^d   Rodríguez, Bernardo Calvo ^d   Prudencio, Carlos ^e   Martins, Thiago F ^f   Labruna, Marcelo B ^f  

^a INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY AND PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCES   (Czech Republic)

^c INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE BIOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^d Servicio Nacional de Salud Animal (SENASA)   (Costa Rica)

^e INSTITUTO ADOLFO LUTZ   (Brazil)

^f UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Amblyomma; Birds; Costa Rica; Ixodes; Rickettsia; Ticks

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

AMBLYOMMA; AMBLYOMMA CALCARATUM; AMBLYOMMA COELEBS; AMBLYOMMA LONGIROSTRE; AMBLYOMMA MACULATUM; AMBLYOMMA OVALE; AMBLYOMMA SABANERAE; AMBLYOMMA VARIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BIRD; CHIROXIPHIA LINEARIS; COSTA RICA; DNA SEQUENCE; ENDOSYMBIONT; EUCOMETIS PENICILLATA; EUPHONIA HIRUNDINACEA; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; GLTA GENE; IXODES; IXODES MINOR; IXODES SCAPULARIS; LARVAL STAGE; LEPTOPOGON SUPERCILIARIS; NONHUMAN; NYMPH; OMPA GENE; PLATYRINCHUS MISTAKES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA AMBLYOMMII; RICKETTSIA BELLII; RICKETTSIACEAE INFECTION; TACHYPHONUS RUFUS; TICK INFESTATION; ANIMAL; BIRD DISEASE; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; IXODIDAE; LARVA; MICROBIOLOGY; PARASITOLOGY; VETERINARY; WILD ANIMAL;

ACARI; AMBLYOMMA; AMBLYOMMA CALCARATUM; AMBLYOMMA COELEBS; AMBLYOMMA LONGIROSTRE; AMBLYOMMA MACULATUM; AMBLYOMMA OVALE; AMBLYOMMA VARIUM; AVES; IXODES; IXODES MINOR; IXODES SCAPULARIS ENDOSYMBIONT; IXODIDA; IXODIDAE; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA AMBLYOMMII; RICKETTSIA BELLII; RICKETTSIA SP.;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; BIRD DISEASES; BIRDS; COSTA RICA; IXODIDAE; LARVA; RICKETTSIA; TICK INFESTATIONS;

EID: 84930042305     PISSN: 1877959X     EISSN: 18779603     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ttbdis.2015.03.016     Document Type: Article

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