Assessment of feline ehrlichiosis in central Spain using serology and a polymerase chain reaction technique

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1026, Issue , 2004, Pages 103-105

  Aguirre, Enara ^a   Tesouro, Miguel A ^b   Amusategui, Inmaculada ^a   Rodríguez Franco, Fernando ^a   Sainz, Angel ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEÓN   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cat; Ehrlichia; Feline ehrlichiosis; PCR; Serology; Spain

Indexed keywords

ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; CAT; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; EHRLICHIA CANIS; EHRLICHIOSIS; NEORICKETTSIA RISTICII; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEROLOGY; SPAIN;

ANAPLASMA; ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ANIMALIA; CANIS; EHRLICHIA; EHRLICHIA CANIS; FELIDAE; FELIS CATUS; NEORICKETTSIA RISTICII;

EID: 10444277453     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1307.013     Document Type: Conference Paper

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