Detection of Anaplasma bovis and Anaplasma phagocytophilum DNA from Haemaphysalis megaspinosa in Hokkaido, Japan

Veterinary Parasitology

Volumn 168, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 170-172

  Yoshimoto, Kaoru ^a   Matsuyama, Yuuki ^a   Matsuda, Hironori ^a   Sakamoto, Leo ^a   Matsumoto, Kotaro ^a   Yokoyama, Naoaki ^a   Inokuma, Hisashi ^a  

^a OBIHIRO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anaplasma bovis; Anaplasma phagocytophilum; Haemaphysalis megaspinosa

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

ANAPLASMA; ANAPLASMA BOVIS; ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM CARRIER; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CATTLE DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HAEMAPHYSALIS MEGASPINOSA; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; JAPAN; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; NYMPH; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TICK; TICK BORNE DISEASE;

ANAPLASMA; ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ANIMALS; ARTHROPOD VECTORS; DNA, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; IXODIDAE; JAPAN; MALE;

ANAPLASMA BOVIS; ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; BOS; HAEMAPHYSALIS; HAEMAPHYSALIS FLAVA; HAEMAPHYSALIS MEGASPINOSA; IXODES OVATUS; IXODES PERSULCATUS; IXODIDA;

EID: 75749098813     PISSN: 03044017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetpar.2009.10.008     Document Type: Article

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