Anaplasma phagocytophilum infection in ticks, China-Russia border

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 932-934

  Jiang, Jia Fu ^a   Jiang, Bao Gui ^a   Yu, Ji Hong ^a   Zhang, Wen Yi ^a   Gao, Hong Wei ^a   Zhan, Lin ^a   Sun, Yi ^a   Zhang, Xiao Ai ^a   Zhang, Pan He ^a   Liu, Wei ^a   Wu, Xiao Ming ^a   Xu, Rong Man ^a   Cao, Wu Chun ^a  

^a BEIJING INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY AND EPIDEMIOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; BACTERIAL GENE; CHINA; CITRATE SYNTHASE GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DERMACENTOR; DERMACENTOR SILVARUM; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; HAEMAPHYSALIS COCINNA; HAEMAPHYSALIS JAPONICA; HAEMAPHYSALIS LONGICORNIS; HUMAN; HUMAN GRANULOCYTIC ANAPLASMOSIS; INCIDENCE; IXODES PERSULCATUS; LETTER; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PREVALENCE; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; TICK;

ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ANIMALS; CHINA; DOGS; EHRLICHIOSIS; GENES, BACTERIAL; GOAT DISEASES; GOATS; PHYLOGENY; PREVALENCE; RUSSIA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASES; TICKS;

EID: 79955779403     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1705.101630     Document Type: Letter

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