Serologic evidence of a natural infection of white-tailed deer with the agent of human granulocytic ehrlichiosis in Wisconsin and Maryland

Clinical and Diagnostic Laboratory Immunology

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 762-765

  Walls, Jennifer J ^a   Asanovich, Kristin M ^b   Bakken, Johan S ^c   Stephen Dumler, J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c SMDC Health System   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; DEER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EHRLICHIA CHAFFEENSIS; EHRLICHIOSIS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROLOGY; TICK BORNE DISEASE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0031741973     PISSN: 1071412X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/cdli.5.6.762-765.1998     Document Type: Article

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