Inability of a Variant Strain of Anaplasma phagocytophilum to Infect Mice

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 188, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1757-1763

  Massung, Robert F ^a,c   Priestley, Rachael A ^a   Miller, Nathan J ^b   Mather, Thomas N ^b   Levin, Michael L ^a  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

^c CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CRICETIDAE; DNA SEQUENCE; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; IXODES SCAPULARIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCID MOUSE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES; XENODIAGNOSIS;

ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ANIMALS; BACTEREMIA; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; HUMANS; IXODES; MICE; MICE, INBRED DBA; MICE, SCID; PEROMYSCUS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 0346882929     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/379725     Document Type: Article

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