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Detection ofRickettsia rickettsiiandBartonella henselaeinRhipicephalus sanguineusTicks from California
2007-01-01
Abstract excerpt
Sixty-two questing adult Rhipicephalus sanguineus (Latreille) ticks were collected by direct removal from blades of turfgrass and adjacent concrete walkways at a suburban home in Riverside County, CA, and tested for the presence of Rickettsia, Bartonella, and Ehrlichia DNA. Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) was used to amplify fragments of the 17-kDa antigen gene and the rOmpA gene of the spotted fever group rickett...
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- Literature Corpus work
- db1bf239-f963-5037-9b38-a7fca776da6b
- DOI
- 10.1093/jmedent/41.5.158
