Characterization of spotted fever group rickettsiae in flea and tick specimens from northern Peru

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 42, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 4961-4967

  Blair, Patrick J ^a,e   Jiang, Ju ^b   Schoeler, George B ^a   Moron, Cecilia ^c   Anaya, Elizabeth ^c   Cespedes, Manuel ^c   Cruz, Christopher ^a   Felices, Vidal ^a   Guevara, Carolina ^a   Mendoza, Leonardo ^c   Villaseca, Pablo ^c   Sumner, John W ^d   Richards, Allen L ^b   Olson, James G ^a  

^a Peru   (Peru)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^c NAVAL MEDICAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

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

^e US Naval Medical Research Unit No 2 Jakarta   (Indonesia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ADORATOPSILLA INTERMEDIA; AMBLYOMMA; ANOCENTER NITENS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BOOPHILUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CTENOCEPHALIDES; EPIDEMIC; FEVER; FLEA; GLTA GENE; IXODES; IXODES BOLIVIENSIS; NEOTYPHLOCERAS CRASSISPINA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OMPA GENE; OMPB GENE; PERU; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULEX IRRITAN; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA AESCHLIMANNII; RICKETTSIA FELIS; RICKETTSIA RHIPICEPHALI; RICKETTSIOSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPOTTED FEVER; TICK; XENOPSYLLA CHEOPIS;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA, BACTERIAL; FLEAS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PERU; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RICKETTSIA; ROCKY MOUNTAIN SPOTTED FEVER; TICKS;

ACARI; AMBLYOMMA; AMBLYOMMA MACULATUM; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BOOPHILUS; CTENOCEPHALIDES; FELIS; IXODES; IXODIDAE; PULEX; RICKETTSIA AESCHLIMANNII; RICKETTSIA FELIS; RICKETTSIA RHIPICEPHALI; RICKETTSIALES; SIPHONAPTERA (FLEAS); SPOTTED FEVER GROUP; XENOPSYLLA CHEOPIS;

EID: 8644236578     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.42.11.4961-4967.2004     Document Type: Article

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