Molecular Detection and Identification of Spotted Fever Group Rickettsiae in Ticks Collected from the West Bank, Palestinian Territories.

• मुख्य लेखकों: Suheir Ereqat (लेखक), Abedelmajeed Nasereddin (लेखक), Amer Al-Jawabreh (लेखक), Kifaya Azmi (लेखक), Shimon Harrus (लेखक), Kosta Mumcuoglu (लेखक), Dimtry Apanaskevich (लेखक), Ziad Abdeen (लेखक)
• स्वरूप: पुस्तक
• प्रकाशित: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• विषय: article
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Tick-borne rickettsioses are caused by obligate intracellular bacteria belonging to the spotted fever group (SFG) rickettsiae. Although Spotted Fever is prevalent in the Middle East, no reports for the presence of tick-borne pathogens are available or any studies on the epidemiology of this disease...