Ticks and rickettsiae from wildlife in Belize, Central America

Parasites and Vectors

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Lopes, Marcos G ^a   Junior, Joares May ^b,c   Foster, Rebecca J ^b,d   Harmsen, Bart J ^b,d   Sanchez, Emma ^b,d   Martins, Thiago F ^a   Quigley, Howard ^b   Marcili, Arlei ^a,e   Labruna, Marcelo B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b PANTHERA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN SANTA CATARINA   (Brazil)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BELIZE   (Belize)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SANTO AMARO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Amblyomma oblongoguttatum; Amblyomma ovale; Amblyomma pacae; Central America; Ixodes affinis; Rickettsia; Wild animals

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; RIBOSOME DNA;

16S RNA GENE; AMBLYOMMA; AMBLYOMMA CF. OBLONGOGUTTATUM; AMBLYOMMA COELEBS; AMBLYOMMA OVALE; AMBLYOMMA PACAE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BELIZE; CUNICULUS PACA; DNA SEQUENCE; EIRA BARBARA; FEMALE; GLTA GENE; IXODES; IXODES AFFINIS; JAGUAR; MALE; NASUA NARICA; NONHUMAN; OMPA GENE; PARASITE VECTOR; PUMA CONCOLOR; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA AMBLYOMMII; RNA GENE; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; TICK; WILD ANIMAL; WILDLIFE; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PARASITOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; RICKETTSIA RICKETTSII; TICK INFESTATIONS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BELIZE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA RICKETTSII; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TICK INFESTATIONS; TICKS;

EID: 84957432490     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17563305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13071-016-1348-1     Document Type: Article

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