Prevalence of Anaplasma marginale in different tick species from Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania

Veterinary Parasitology

Volumn 161, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 154-157

  Fyumagwa, Robert D ^a,b   Simmler, Pascale ^c   Meli, Marina L ^c   Hoare, Richard ^a,b   Hofmann Lehmann, Regina ^c   Lutz, Hans ^c  

^a TANZANIA WILDLIFE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Tanzania)

^b Messerli Foundation   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Anaplasma marginale; Livestock; Ngorongoro Crater; Real time PCR; Ticks

Indexed keywords

DNA; NUCLEIC ACID;

AMBLYOMMA; AMBLYOMMA GEMMA; ANAPLASMA MARGINALE; ARTICLE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RHIPICEPHALUS; RHIPICEPHALUS APPENDICULATUS; RHIPICEPHALUS COMPOSITUS; RHIPICEPHALUS DECOLORATUS; RHIPICEPHALUS PRAETEXTATUS; RHIPICEPHALUS PULCHELLUS; RICKETTSIA; TANZANIA; TICK;

ANAPLASMA MARGINALE; ANAPLASMOSIS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; PREVALENCE; TANZANIA; TICKS;

AMBLYOMMA; ANAPLASMA MARGINALE; ANIMALIA; IXODIDA; RHIPICEPHALUS APPENDICULATUS; RICKETTSIA;

EID: 62849091867     PISSN: 03044017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetpar.2008.12.018     Document Type: Article

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