Seroprevalence of Ehrlichia canis and of canine granulocytic ehrlichia infection in dogs in Switzerland

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 36, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 3460-3462

  Pusterla, Nicola ^a   Pusterla, Jeannine Berger ^b   Deplazes, Peter ^a   Wolfensberger, Celestine ^a   Müller, Werner ^c   Hörauf, Angelika ^a   Reusch, Claudia ^a   Lutz, Hans ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b Bessy's Kleintierklinik   (Switzerland)

^c Analytisches Labor Alomed   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY;

ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; BORRELIA INFECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOG; EHRLICHIA CANIS; EHRLICHIOSIS; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROPREVALENCE; SWITZERLAND;

ACARI; ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ANIMALIA; BORRELIA; CANIS FAMILIARIS; EHRLICHIA; EHRLICHIA CANIS; RHIPICEPHALUS SANGUINEUS;

EID: 0031724711     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jcm.36.12.3460-3462.1998     Document Type: Article

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