Reduction of tick infections with Anaplasma marginale and A. phagocytophilum by targeting the tick protective antigen subolesin

Parasitology Research

Volumn 100, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 85-91

  De La Fuente, José ^a,b   Almazán, Consuelo ^a   Blouin, Edmour F ^a   Naranjo, Victoria ^b   Kocan, Katherine M ^a  

^a OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIÓN EN RECURSOS CINEGÉTICOS IREC CSIC UCLM JCCM   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN; DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; SUBOLESIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANAPLASMA MARGINALE; ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ANAPLASMOSIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CATTLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DERMACENTOR; DRUG TARGETING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNIZATION; INFESTATION; IXODES SCAPULARIS; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA INTERFERENCE; VACCINATION;

ANAPLASMA MARGINALE; ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ANAPLASMOSIS; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; EHRLICHIOSIS; HUMANS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ACARI; ANAPLASMA MARGINALE; ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; BOS TAURUS; DERMACENTOR VARIABILIS; IXODES SCAPULARIS; IXODIDA;

EID: 33751210658     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-006-0244-6     Document Type: Article

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