Identification of tick-borne pathogen diversity by metagenomic analysis in Haemaphysalis longicornis from Xinyang, China

• Main Authors: Lu Zhuang (Author), Juan Du (Author), Xiao-Ming Cui (Author), Hao Li (Author), Fang Tang (Author), Pan-He Zhang (Author), Jian-Gong Hu (Author), Yi-Gang Tong (Author), Zhi-Chun Feng (Author), Wei Liu (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background A wide variety of pathogens could be maintained and transmitted by Haemaphysalis longicornis. The aim of this study is to systematically examine the variety of pathogens carried by Haemaphysalis longicornis, an importnatn vector, in tick-borne diseases epidemic area, and to estim...