Rickettsial infections in ticks from reptiles, birds and humans in Honduras

Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 737-742

  Novakova, Marketa ^a   Literak, Ivan ^a   Chevez, Luis ^b   Martins, Thiago F ^c   Ogrzewalska, Maria ^d   Labruna, Marcelo B ^c  

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

^b Bay Islands Foundation   (Honduras)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^d INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Amblyomma; Birds; Honduras; Reptiles; Rickettsia; Ticks

Indexed keywords

AMBLYOMMA DISSIMILE; AMBLYOMMA LONGIROSTRE; AMBLYOMMA MIXTUM; AMBLYOMMA NODOSUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BIRD; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; HONDURAS; HUMAN; MALE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPTILE; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIACEAE INFECTION; TICK; ANIMAL; BIRD DISEASE; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LARVA; LIZARD; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NYMPH; PARASITOLOGY; TICK INFESTATIONS; VETERINARY;

ANIMALS; BIRD DISEASES; BIRDS; FEMALE; HONDURAS; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; LARVA; LIZARDS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NYMPH; RICKETTSIA; TICK INFESTATIONS; TICKS;

EID: 84942368990     PISSN: 1877959X     EISSN: 18779603     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ttbdis.2015.06.009     Document Type: Article

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