Detection of bacteria carried by ticks from the mountain areas of Guizhou, Southwestern China
Lin Zhan,
Shengchun Wu,
Xian Hai He
et al.
Abstract:Background: Emerging tick-borne bacterial pathogens pose a threat to public health. The bacterial community and diversity in ticks have been reported with high-throughput sequencing methods that have been widely used in microorganism identification. Tick-borne bacterial pathogens such as Rickettsia, Ehrlichia, Coxiella, and Bartonella amplified by PCR methods have been reported in Guizhou. Little information has been reported on the diversity of the bacterial community in ticks in the areas. The aim of this st… Show more
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