Rickettsia parkeri in Amblyomma maculatum ticks, North Carolina, USA, 2009-2010

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 2350-2353

  Varela Stokes, Andrea S ^a   Paddock, Christopher D ^b   Engber, Barry ^c   Toliver, Marcee ^c  

^a MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^c North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN A; RNA 16S;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; DNA EXTRACTION; FEMALE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; MALE; NONHUMAN; OMPA GENE; PREVALENCE; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA PARKERI; RICKETTSIACEAE INFECTION; ROCKY MOUNTAIN SPOTTED FEVER; TICK; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; ARACHNID VECTORS; BASE SEQUENCE; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; DNA, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; IXODIDAE; NORTH CAROLINA; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA INFECTIONS; ROCKY MOUNTAIN SPOTTED FEVER; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TICK-BORNE DISEASES;

EID: 84930483643     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1712.110789     Document Type: Article

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