Isolation of Bartonella schoenbuchensis from Lipoptena cervi, a blood-sucking arthropod causing deer ked dermatitis

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 42, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 5320-5323

  Dehio, Christoph ^a   Sauder, Ursula ^a   Hiestand, Rosemarie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BARTONELLA; BARTONELLA SCHOENBUCHENSIS; BOVIDS; CLINICAL FEATURE; DEER KED DERMATITIS; DERMATITIS; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMAN; LIPOPTENA CERVI; MIDGUT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; ARTHROPOD VECTORS; BARTONELLA; BARTONELLA INFECTIONS; DEER; DERMATITIS; DIPTERA; ECTOPARASITIC INFESTATIONS; HUMANS; INSECT BITES AND STINGS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ANIMALIA; ARTHROPODA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BARTONELLA; BARTONELLA SCHOENBUCHENSIS; BOVIDAE; CERVIDAE; LIPOPTENA; LIPOPTENA CERVI; RICKETTSIALES;

EID: 8644240878     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.42.11.5320-5323.2004     Document Type: Article

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