Granulocytic Ehrlichia infection in Ixodid ticks and mammals in woodlands and uplands of the U.K.

Medical and Veterinary Entomology

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 423-429

  Ogden, N H ^a   Bown, K ^a   Horrocks, B K ^a   Woldehiwet, Z ^a   Bennett, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

16S rRNA; Borrelia burgdorferi; Ehrlichia phagocytophila; Ehrlichiae; Human Granulocytic Ehrlichiosis; I. trianguliceps; Ixodes ricinus; Pheasants; Rodents; Sheep; United Kingdom

Indexed keywords

PATHOGENESIS; UNITED KINGDOM;

DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HOST; PARASITE PREVALENCE; PARASITIC DISEASE; UPLAND REGION; WOODLAND;

ANIMALS; ARVICOLINAE; DEER; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; EHRLICHIA; EHRLICHIOSIS; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; IXODES; MAMMALS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

UNITED KINGDOM;

ACARI; ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ANAPLASMATACEAE; BORRELIA; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; EHRLICHIA; INVERTEBRATA; IXODES RICINUS; IXODES TRIANGULICEPS; IXODIDAE; MAMMALIA; OVIS ARIES; PHASIANIDAE; RODENTIA; IXODIDA;

EID: 0032190853     PISSN: 0269283X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2915.1998.00133.x     Document Type: Article

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