Equine and canine Anaplasma phagocytophilum strains isolated on the island of Sardinia (Italy) are phylogenetically related to pathogenic strains from the United States

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 71, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 6418-6422

  Alberti, Alberto ^a   Zobba, Rosanna ^a   Chessa, Bernardo ^a   Addis, Maria Filippa ^a   Sparagano, Olivier ^b   Parpaglia, Maria Luisa Pinna ^a   Cubeddu, Tiziana ^a   Pintori, Gianpaolo ^a   Pittau, Marco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASSARI   (Italy)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PATHOLOGY; STRAIN;

LINEAGES; MOLECULAR APPROACH; PATHOGENS;

MICROBIOLOGY;

DNA;

MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; PATHOGEN; PHYLOGENETICS;

ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ARTICLE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DOG DISEASE; EUROPE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HORSE DISEASE; ITALY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; STRAIN IDENTIFICATION; TICK; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; UNITED STATES; ZOONOSIS;

ANAPLASMA; ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ANIMALS; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; EHRLICHIOSIS; GROEL PROTEIN; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; HUMANS; ITALY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TICK INFESTATIONS; UNITED STATES;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SARDINIA; SOUTHERN EUROPE; WORLD;

ACARI; ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; CANIS FAMILIARIS; EQUIDAE; EQUUS CABALLUS;

EID: 26844431600     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.71.10.6418-6422.2005     Document Type: Article

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