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SUBMITTER: Niebylski ML
PROVIDER: S-EPMC168705 | biostudies-other | 1997 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Applied and environmental microbiology 19971001 10
A microorganism (Dermacantor andersoni symbiont [DAS]) infecting Rocky Mountain wood ticks (D. andersoni) collected in the Bitterroot Mountains of western Montana was characterized as an endosymbiont belonging to the genus Francisella. Previously described as Wolbachia like, the organism's DNA was amplified from both naturally infected tick ovarial tissues and Vero cell cultures by PCR assay with primer sets derived from eubacterial 16S ribosomal DNA (rDNA) and Francisella membrane protein genes ...[more]