Concurrent infections with vector-borne pathogens associated with fatal hemolytic anemia in a cattle herd in Switzerland

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 42, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 3775-3780

  Hofmann Lehmann, Regina ^a,g   Meli, Marina L ^a   Dreher, Ute M ^a   Gönczi, Enikö ^a   Deplazes, Peter ^a   Braun, Ueli ^a   Engels, Monika ^a   Schüpbach, Jörg ^b   Jörger, Kaspar ^c   Thoma, Rudolf ^c   Griot, Christian ^d   Stärk, Katharina D C ^e   Willi, Barbara ^a   Schmidt, Joseph ^e   Kocan, Katherine M ^f   Lutz, Hans ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b Swiss National Center for Retroviruses   (Switzerland)

^c Canton of Grisons   (Switzerland)

^d INSTITUTE OF VIROLOGY AND IMMUNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^e SWISS FEDERAL VETERINARY OFFICE   (Switzerland)

^f OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANAPLASMA MARGINALE; ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ANAPLASMOSIS; ANEMIA; ANIMAL CELL; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; BABESIA; BLOOD SAMPLING; BOVINE ANAPLASMOSIS; CATTLE DISEASE; CELL INCLUSION; DEPRESSION; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECTOPARASITE; EPIDEMIC; FEVER; HEMOGLOBINURIA; HEMOLYTIC ANEMIA; HERD; INFESTATION; LACTATION DISORDER; MYCOPLASMA; MYCOPLASMA WENYONII; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUPERINFECTION; SWITZERLAND; SYMPTOM; THEILERIA; VECTOR BORNE DISEASE;

ANAPLASMA MARGINALE; ANAPLASMOSIS; ANEMIA, HEMOLYTIC; ANIMALS; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ERYTHROCYTES; MYCOPLASMA; MYCOPLASMA INFECTIONS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SWITZERLAND; THEILERIA; THEILERIASIS;

ANAPLASMA; ANAPLASMA MARGINALE; ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ANIMALIA; BABESIA; BOS TAURUS; BOVINAE; MYCOPLASMA; MYCOPLASMA WENYONII; PROTOZOA; RICKETTSIALES; THEILERIA;

EID: 3843059125     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.42.8.3775-3780.2004     Document Type: Article

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