Coxiella-like endosymbiont associated to the "Anatolian brown tick" Rhipicephalus bursa in Southern Italy

Microbes and Infection

Volumn 17, Issue 11-12, 2015, Pages 799-805

  Raele, Donato Antonio ^a   Galante, Domenico ^a   Pugliese, Nicola ^a   De Simone, Esther ^a   Cafiero, Maria Assunta ^a  

^a ISTITUTO ZOOPROFILATTICO SPERIMENTALE DELLA PUGLIA E DELLA BASILICATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Coxiellaceae; Endosymbiont; Italy; LAMP; Rhipicephalus bursa

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S; BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; TRANSPOSON;

AMPLICON; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL IDENTIFICATION; ARTICLE; COM1 GENE; COXIELLA; COXIELLA BURNETII; ENDOSYMBIONT; FEMALE; GENE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE INSERTION SEQUENCE; GENE SEQUENCE; IS1111 GENE; ITALY; LOOP MEDIATED ISOTHERMAL AMPLIFICATION; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHIPICEPHALUS; RHIPICEPHALUS BURSA; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENETICS; MICROBIOLOGY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; Q FEVER; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASE; SYMBIOSIS; TRANSPOSON; VETERINARY;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; COXIELLA BURNETII; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; ITALY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; Q FEVER; RHIPICEPHALUS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASES; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 84951310745     PISSN: 12864579     EISSN: 1769714X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.micinf.2015.09.011     Document Type: Article

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