Variant -and individual dependent nature of persistent Anaplasma phagocytophilum infection

Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Granquist, Erik G ^a   Bårdsen, Kjetil ^a   Bergström, Karin ^b   Stuen, Snorre ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^b NATIONAL VETERINARY INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BOVIDAE; IXODIDA; OVIS ARIES;

BACTERIAL DNA; RNA 16S;

ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; EHRLICHIOSIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PATHOGENICITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RNA GENE; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASE;

ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ANIMALS; BACTEREMIA; DNA, BACTERIAL; EHRLICHIOSIS; GENES, RRNA; GENOMIC STRUCTURAL VARIATION; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASES;

EID: 77950810306     PISSN: 0044605X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1751-0147-52-25     Document Type: Article

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