Detection of Ehrlichia risticii, the agent of potomac horse fever, in freshwater stream snails (Pleuroceridae: Juga spp.) from Northern California

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 64, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 2888-2893

  Barlough, Jeffrey E ^a   Reubel, Gerhard H ^a   Madigan, John E ^a   Vredevoe, Larisa K ^a   Miller, Paul E ^b   Rikihisa, Yasuko ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Ohio State University ^*  (United States)

^c OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASE VECTOR; LIFE CYCLE; SNAIL; STREAM;

ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; DNA DETERMINATION; EHRLICHIA; NEORICKETTSIA RISTICII; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA SEQUENCE; SNAIL;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EHRLICHIA; EHRLICHIA RISTICII; EQUUS CABALLUS; GASTROPODA; INVERTEBRATA; JUGA; LYMNAEIDAE; MAMMALIA; NEORICKETTSIA RISTICII; PHYSIDAE; PLANORBIDAE; PLEUROCERIDAE; RICKETTSIALES;

EID: 0031927990     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.64.8.2888-2893.1998     Document Type: Article

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