Wild and farm breeding cervids infections with Anaplasma phagocytophilum

Annals of Agricultural and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 73-77

  Hapunik, Joanna ^a   Víchová, Bronislava ^b   Karbowiak, Grzegorz ^a   Wita, Irena ^a   Bogdaszewski, Marek ^a   Peťko, Branislav ^b,c  

^a W STEFA SKI INSTITUTE OF PARASITOLOGY   (Poland)

^b PARASITOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Slovakia)

^c Physics and Informatics   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Anaplasma phagocytophilum; Cervidae

Indexed keywords

DNA;

16S RRNA GENE; ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BLOOD SAMPLING; CAPREOLUS CAPREOLUS; CERVUS NIPPON; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAMA DAMA; DEER; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA ISOLATION; FARM ANIMAL; FEMALE; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN GRANULOCYTIC ANAPLASMOSIS; INFECTION RISK; MALE; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLAND; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RED DEER; RNA GENE; WILD ANIMAL;

ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; BREEDING; DEER; EHRLICHIOSIS; FEMALE; MALE; POLAND; PREVALENCE;

ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ANIMALIA; CAPREOLUS; CAPREOLUS CAPREOLUS; CERVIDAE; CERVUS ELAPHUS; CERVUS NIPPON; CERVUS NIPPON HORTULORUM; DAMA DAMA;

EID: 79960371206     PISSN: 12321966     EISSN: 18982263     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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