Detection of a Brucella-like (Alphaproteobacteria) Bacterium in Boophilus spp. (Acari: Ixodidae) from Iran

• Main Authors: Asadollah Hosseini-Chegeni (Author), Majid Tavakoli (Author), Zakkyeh Telmadarraiy (Author), Mohammad Mehdi Sedaghat (Author), Faezeh Faghihi (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Pasteur Institute of Iran, 2017-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Ticks harbor many pathogenic, as well as endosymbiotic and non-pathogenic agents. They are host of a variety of as yet unidentified microbes that continue to be described. In the present study, a Brucella-like bacterium was detected in a Boophilus tick by PCR amplification of a partial fragment of 1...