Ehrlichia ruminantium, Sudan [3]

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 11, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 1792-1793

  Muramatsu, Yasukazu ^a   Ukegawa, Shin Ya ^a   El Hussein, Abdel Rahim Mohamed ^b   Rahman, Magdi Badawi Abdel ^b   Gabbar, Khalil Mohamed Ali Abdel ^c   Chitambo, Agnes Mumbi ^d   Komiya, Tomoyoshi ^e   Mwase, Enala Tembo ^f   Morita, Chiharu ^a   Tamura, Yutaka ^a  

^a RAKUNO GAKUEN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Central Veterinary Research Laboratory Sudan   (Sudan)

^c University of Bahr Elghazal   (Sudan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NAMIBIA   (Namibia)

^e KITASATO INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ZAMBIA   (Zambia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DNA PROBE; EHRLICHIA RUMINANTIUM; EHRLICHIOSIS; HEARTWATER DISEASE; LETTER; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SUDAN;

EID: 27744481549     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1111.050744     Document Type: Letter

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