Reptile infection with anaplasma phagocytophilum, the causative agent of granulocytic anaplasmosis

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 95, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1165-1170

  Nieto, Nathan C ^a   Foley, Janet E ^a   Bettaso, Jamie ^a,b   Lane, Robert S ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b U S FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DISEASE; BACTERIUM; DISEASE PREVALENCE; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPTILE;

ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN GRANULOCYTIC ANAPLASMOSIS; INFESTATION; IXODES; LIZARD; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE PREVALENCE; PARASITE VECTOR; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SNAKE;

ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; ARACHNID VECTORS; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; CALIFORNIA; COLUBRIDAE; DNA, BACTERIAL; EHRLICHIOSIS; FEMALE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IXODES; LIZARDS; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; SNAKES; TICK INFESTATIONS;

CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES;

ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ANIMALIA; IXODES PACIFICUS; IXODIDA; PITUOPHIS CATENIFER; PITUOPHIS CATENIFER CATENIFER; REPTILIA; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIACEAE; SCELOPORUS OCCIDENTALIS; SERPENTES; SQUAMATA;

EID: 77749252655     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1645/GE-1983.1     Document Type: Article

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