Identification of Ehrlichia chaffeensis by nested PCR in ticks from southern China

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 38, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 2778-2780

  Cao, Wu Chun ^a   Gao, Yu Min ^a   Zhang, Pan He ^a   Zhang, Xi Tan ^a   Dai, Qing Hua ^a   Dumler, J Stephen ^b   Fang, Li Qun ^a   Yang, Hong ^a  

^a BEIJING INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY AND EPIDEMIOLOGY   (China)

^b DEPARTMENT OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; EHRLICHIA CHAFFEENSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TICK;

ACARI; AMBLYOMMA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EHRLICHIA; EHRLICHIA CHAFFEENSIS; HAEMAPHYSALIS; HAEMAPHYSALIS YENI; RICKETTSIALES;

EID: 0033929306     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jcm.38.7.2778-2780.2000     Document Type: Article

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