Ehrlichia prevalence in Amblyomma americanum, Central Texas [11]

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1342-1343

  Long, Scott Wesley ^a,c   Pound, J Mathews ^b   Yu, Xue Jie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH   (United States)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^c University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME RNA;

AMBLYOMMA; ANIMAL CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DNA TEMPLATE; DSB GENE; EHRLICHIA; EHRLICHIA EWINGII; EHRLICHIOSIS; GENE; GENE SEQUENCE; LETTER; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA GENE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SHIGELLA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 3042817397     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1007.03-0792     Document Type: Letter

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