Rickettsia species in human-parasitizing ticks in Greece

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 110, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 299-304

  Papa, Anna ^a   Xanthopoulou, Kyriaki ^a   Kotriotsiou, Tzimoula ^a   Papaioakim, Miltiadis ^b   Sotiraki, Smaragda ^c   Chaligiannis, Ilias ^a,c   Maltezos, Efstratios ^d  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY GENERAL HOSPITAL OF ALEXANDROUPOLIS   (Greece)

^c INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS   (Greece)

^d DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Greece; Rickettsia; Ticks

Indexed keywords

OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN A; BACTERIAL DNA; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; ROMPA, RICKETTSIA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; DERMACENTOR MARGINATUS; DISEASE CARRIER; DNA EXTRACTION; FEMALE; GREECE; HUMAN; HYALOMMA MARGINATUM; INFANT; IXODES RICINUS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RHIPICEPHALUS SANGUINEUS; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA AESCHLIMANNII; RICKETTSIA AFRICAE; RICKETTSIA BARBARIAE; RICKETTSIA MASSILAE; RICKETTSIA MONACENSIS; RICKETTSIACEAE INFECTION; TICK; TICK BITE; ANIMAL; ARACHNID VECTOR; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TRANSMISSION; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; ARACHNID VECTORS; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DNA, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; GREECE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA INFECTIONS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TICKS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84978997705     PISSN: 00359203     EISSN: 18783503     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/trstmh/trw022     Document Type: Article

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