NR ACNC
AU Chastel,C.; Abalain-Colloc,M.L.; Gilot,B.; Le Goff,F.; Gruffaz,R.; Simitzis,A.M.
TI [Spiroplasmas and hematophagous arthropods; prospects in tropical pathology]
OT Spiroplasmes et arthropodes hematophages; perspectives en pathologie tropicale.
QU Bulletin de la Société de Pathologie Exotique et de ses Filiales 1985; 78(5 Pt 2): 769-79
PT journal article; review
AB Spiroplasmas are original wall-free prokaryotes which exhibit motility and a helical shape although lacking any cell wall or motile apparatus. They are known by phytopathologists because some of them are responsible for severe arthropod-borne plant diseases, such as Spiroplasma citri, the etiologic agent of "citrus stubborn disease". Other spiroplasmas are pathogenic for a number of insects: drosophila, bees and beetles. More recently spiroplasmas were also isolated from ticks, mosquitoes, horse-flies and deer-flies opening a new chapter in medical pathology. These agents are of possible great significance in Tropical Medicine.
ZR 43
MH Animal; Arthropod Vectors/*microbiology; Bacterial Infections/transmission; Bacteriophages; Creutzfeldt-Jakob Syndrome/etiology; Culicidae/microbiology; English Abstract; Human; Spiroplasma/isolation & purification/*physiology; Support, Non-U.S. Gov't; Ticks/microbiology
SP französisch
PO Frankreich