Quantitative evaluation of ehrlichial burden in horses after experimental transmission of human granulocytic ehrlichia agent by intravenous inoculation with infected leukocytes and by infected ticks

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 37, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 4042-4044

  Pusterla, Nicola ^a   Leutenegger, Christian M ^a   Chae, Joon Seok ^a   Lutz, Hans ^b   Kimsey, Robert B ^a   Dumler, J Stephen ^c   Madigan, John E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD CULTURE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EHRLICHIOSIS; HORSE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; TICK BITE;

ACARI; ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ANIMALIA; EHRLICHIA; EQUIDAE; EQUUS CABALLUS; RICKETTSIALES;

EID: 0032701987     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jcm.37.12.4042-4044.1999     Document Type: Article

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