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SUBMITTER: Allan BF
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3322017 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Allan Brian F BF Goessling Lisa S LS Storch Gregory A GA Thach Robert E RE
Emerging infectious diseases 20100301 3
Efforts to identify wildlife reservoirs for tick-borne pathogens are frequently limited by poor understanding of tick-host interactions and potentially transient infectivity of hosts under natural conditions. To identify reservoir hosts for lone star tick (Amblyomma americanum)-associated pathogens, we used a novel technology. In field-collected ticks, we used PCR to amplify a portion of the 18S rRNA gene in remnant blood meal DNA. Reverse line blot hybridization with host-specific probes was th ...[more]