Molecular evidence for Anaplasma phagocytophilum in Israel

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 13, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1411-1412

  Keysary, Avi ^a   Massung, Robert F ^b   Inbar, Moshe ^c   Wallach, Arian D ^c   Shanas, Uri ^c   Mumcuoglu, Kosta Y ^d   Waner, Trevor ^a  

^a ISRAEL INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Israel)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^d HEBREW UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; RIBOSOME RNA; RNA 16S;

ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ARTICLE; BOOPHILUS KOHLSI; CAPREOLUS CAPREOLUS; DEER; DNA SEQUENCE; EHRLICHIOSIS; FEMALE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HYALOMMA MARGINATUM; ISRAEL; MALE; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RHIPICEPHALUS TURANICUS; RNA GENE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; STRAIN IDENTIFICATION;

EID: 34848892697     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1309.070455     Document Type: Article

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