Ehrlichia chaffeensis in Missouri ticks
| Autor: | Gregory A. McDonald, C B Dommaraju, W E Roland, T L Cyr, E D Everett, S Z Hasan |
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| Rok vydání: | 1998 |
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Bacterial Ehrlichiosis Tick Polymerase Chain Reaction Microbiology law.invention Amblyomma americanum Ticks law Virology parasitic diseases medicine Ehrlichia chaffeensis Animals Dermacentor variabilis Polymerase chain reaction biology bacterial infections and mycoses biology.organism_classification medicine.disease Insect Vectors Infectious Diseases Parasitology Nested polymerase chain reaction Ixodidae |
| Zdroj: | The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene. 59(4) |
| ISSN: | 0002-9637 |
| Popis: | A nested polymerase chain reaction specific for Ehrlichia chaffeensis was used to attempt to amplify DNA from extracts of 100 individual ticks collected from 13 counties in central Missouri. Seventeen of 59 Amblyomma americanum and six of 41 Dermacentor variabilis ticks exhibited the characteristic 389-basepair product. This supports the hypothesis that these tick species may be vectors of human monocytic ehrlichiosis. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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