Detection of Anaplasma bovis DNA in the peripheral blood of domestic dogs in Japan

Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 63, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 349-352

  Sakamoto, Leo ^b   Ichikawa, Yasuaki ^b   Sakata, Yoshimi ^b   Matsumoto, Kotaro ^a   Inokuma, Hisashi ^a  

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

^b BOEHRINGER INGELHEIM PHARMA GMBH AND CO KG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; DNA FRAGMENT; RNA 16S;

AMPLICON; ANAPLASMA; ANAPLASMA BOVIS; ANAPLASMATACEAE INFECTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIROFILARIA IMMITIS; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA SEQUENCE; DOG; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; GENOME SIZE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; JAPAN; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SYMBIONT; WOLBACHIA;

EID: 77957741692     PISSN: 13446304     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7883/yoken.63.349     Document Type: Article

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