Detection of Ehrlichial DNA in small rodents captured in a woodland area of Hokkaido, the northernmost island of Japan, where lyme disease is endemic

Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 58, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 316-319

  Muramatsu, Yasukazu ^a   Ikeda, Emiko ^a   Morita, Chiharu ^a   Tamura, Yutaka ^a  

^a RAKUNO GAKUEN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; DNA 16S; DNA FRAGMENT; NUCLEOTIDE; PRIMER DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; EHRLICHIA; EHRLICHIA CHAFFEENSIS; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FOREST; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE TARGETING; GENUS; JAPAN; LYME DISEASE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; RODENT;

ANAPLASMA; ANIMALS; ARVICOLINAE; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; EHRLICHIA; HUMANS; JAPAN; LYME DISEASE; MURINAE; PHYLOGENY; RODENTIA;

EID: 27744575494     PISSN: 13446304     EISSN: 13446304     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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