Natural infection of small mammal species in Minnesota with the agent of human granulocytic ehrlichiosis

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 853-855

  Walls, Jennifer J ^a   Greig, Barbara ^b   Neitzel, David F ^c   Dumler, J Stephen ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c Metropolitan Mosquito Control District   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; EHRLICHIOSIS; HOST RESISTANCE; INSECT BITE; IXODES; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RICKETTSIOSIS; SEQUENTIAL ANALYSIS; TICK BORNE DISEASE;

ACARI; ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ANIMALIA; BLARINA BREVICAUDA; CLETHRIONOMYS GAPPERI; EHRLICHIA; INSECTA; IXODES SCAPULARIS; MAMMALIA; MURIDAE; PEROMYSCUS; PEROMYSCUS LEUCOPUS; SOREX CINEREUS; SORICIDAE; TAMIAS STRIATUS; UNDETERMINED SCIURIDAE 'CHIPMUNKS';

EID: 0030944121     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jcm.35.4.853-855.1997     Document Type: Article

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