Molecular evidence of Anaplasma phagocytophilum infection in wild cervids and feeding Ixodes ricinus ticks from west-central Poland

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 15, Issue SUPPL. 2, 2009, Pages 81-83

  Michalik, J ^a   Stanczak J ^b   Racewicz, M ^b   Cieniuch, S ^b   Sikora, B ^a   Szubert Kruszynska A ^a   Grochowalska, R ^c  

^a ADAM MICKIEWICZ UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GDANSK   (Poland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZIELONA GÓRA   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN GRANULOCYTIC ANAPLASMOSIS; IXODES RICINUS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLAND; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; CERVIDAE; IXODES RICINUS; IXODIDA;

EID: 73049115450     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: 14690691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-0691.2008.02240.x     Document Type: Article

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