Clinical and laboratory features of the first detected cases of A. phagocytophila infections in dogs from Slovenia

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 990, Issue , 2003, Pages 424-428

  Tozon, Nataša ^a   Petrovec, Miroslav ^a   Avšič Županc, Tatjana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Dogs; Ehrlichiosis; Molecular diagnostics; Slovenia

Indexed keywords

ANAPLASMA; ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONFERENCE PAPER; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DOG; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RICKETTSIOSIS; SERODIAGNOSIS; SLOVENIA;

ANAPLASMA; ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; CANIS FAMILIARIS;

EID: 0037972835     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2003.tb07405.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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