High-resolution genetic fingerprinting of European strains of Anaplasma phagocytophilum by use of multilocus variable-number tandem-repeat analysis

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1771-1776

  Bown, Kevin J ^a   Lambin, Xavier ^b   Ogden, Nicholas H ^c   Petrovec, Miroslav ^d   Shaw, Susan E ^e   Woldehiwet, Zerai ^a   Birtles, Richard J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTRE LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; CHAPERONIN; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN; RIBOSOME RNA;

ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; COCULTURE; DNA FINGERPRINTING; GENE SEQUENCE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA GENE; TICK BORNE DISEASE; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT;

ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; BASE SEQUENCE; CATTLE; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DOGS; EUROPE; HUMANS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MINISATELLITE REPEATS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ANIMALIA; IXODIDA;

EID: 34250641518     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.00365-07     Document Type: Article

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