Attempted experimental infection of domestic goats with Ehrlichia chaffeensis

Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 131-136

  Dugan, Vivien G ^a   Varela, Andrea S ^a   Stallknecht, David E ^a   Hurd, Colin C ^a   Little, Susan E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Deer; Ehrlichia chaffeensis; Gut; Reservoir

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BLOOD SAMPLING; CELL CULTURE; CELL ISOLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA PURIFICATION; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; EHRLICHIA CHAFFEENSIS; EHRLICHIOSIS; EXPERIMENTAL INFECTION; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GOAT; INOCULATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROCONVERSION; SEROLOGY;

ANIMALS; DEER; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; EHRLICHIA CHAFFEENSIS; EHRLICHIOSIS; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; GOAT DISEASES; GOATS; INJECTIONS, INTRADERMAL; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; INJECTIONS, SUBCUTANEOUS; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RANDOM ALLOCATION;

ANIMALIA; CAPRA HIRCUS; CERVIDAE; EHRLICHIA; EHRLICHIA CHAFFEENSIS; ODOCOILEUS VIRGINIANUS; VERTEBRATA; WHITE TIP DIE-BACK PHYTOPLASMA;

EID: 3543139556     PISSN: 15303667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/1530366041210684     Document Type: Article

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