Anaplasma phagocytophilum infection of red foxes (Vulpes vulpes)

Annals of Agricultural and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 299-300

  Karbowiak, Grzegorz ^a   Víchová, Bronislava ^b   Majláthová, Viktória ^b   Hapunik, Joanna ^a   Pet'ko, Branislav ^b  

^a W STEFA SKI INSTITUTE OF PARASITOLOGY   (Poland)

^b PARASITOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Anaplasma phagocytophilum; Vulpes vulpes

Indexed keywords

MAJOR SURFACE PROTEIN 4; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; RNA 16S; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOX; HUMAN GRANULOCYTIC ANAPLASMOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ANIMALS; DNA, BACTERIAL; EHRLICHIOSIS; FOXES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; CANIDAE; VULPES; VULPES VULPES;

EID: 75349102492     PISSN: 12321966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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