Nested PCR for detection and genotyping of Ehrlichia ruminantium: Use in genetic diversity analysis

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1026, Issue , 2004, Pages 106-113

  Martinez, Dominique ^a   Vachiéry, Nathalie ^a   Stachurski, Frederic ^b   Kandassamy, Yane ^a   Raliniaina, Modestine ^c   Aprelon, Rosalie ^a   Gueye, Arona ^d  

^a CIRAD   (France)

^b CIRDES   (Burkina Faso)

^c FOFIFA   (Madagascar)

^d Institut Senegalais de Recherches AgrEcoles Dakar   (Senegal)

Author keywords

Amblyomma ticks; Ehrlichia ruminantium; map 1; pCS20; Vaccine development

Indexed keywords

DNA FRAGMENT; MICROTUBULE ASSOCIATED PROTEIN 1;

CONFERENCE PAPER; EHRLICHIA RUMINANTIUM; EHRLICHIOSIS; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE CLUSTER; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TARGETING; GENOTYPE; HOST; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; TICK;

ACARI; AMBLYOMMA; ANIMALIA; EHRLICHIA; EHRLICHIA RUMINANTIUM;

EID: 10444259114     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1307.014     Document Type: Conference Paper

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