Experimental infection of dairy calves with Ehrlichia chaffeensis

Journal of Medical Microbiology

Volumn 56, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1660-1668

  Delos Santos, Jose R C ^a   Boughan, Kirsten ^a   Bremer, William G ^a   Rizzo, Brian ^a   Schaefer, John J ^a   Rikihisa, Yasuko ^a   Needham, Glen R ^a   Capitini, L A ^a   Anderson, David E ^a   Oglesbee, Michael ^a   Ewing, S A ^b   Stich, Roger W ^c  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BLOOD; CALF (BOVINE); CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOPRESERVATION; DAIRY CATTLE; DISEASE MODEL; DISEASE SEVERITY; EHRLICHIA CHAFFEENSIS; EHRLICHIOSIS; EXPERIMENTAL INFECTION; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLENECTOMY; TICK;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; EHRLICHIA CHAFFEENSIS; EHRLICHIOSIS; HUMANS; MODELS, ANIMAL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 37249084040     PISSN: 00222615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.47427-0     Document Type: Article

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