Multi-locus sequence typing of Ehrlichia ruminantium strains from geographically diverse origins and collected in Amblyomma variegatum from Uganda

Parasites and Vectors

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Nakao, Ryo ^a   Magona, Joseph W ^a,b   Zhou, Lijia ^a   Jongejan, Frans ^c,d   Sugimoto, Chihiro ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b National Livestock Resources Research Institute NaLIRRI   (Uganda)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CHAPERONIN; PROTEIN GLTA; PROTEIN LEPA; PROTEIN LIPA; PROTEIN LIPB; PROTEIN SODB; PROTEIN SUCA; SECY PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLELE; AMBLYOMMA; AMBLYOMMA VARIEGATUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; EHRLICHIA RUMINANTIUM; GENE LOCATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION (SPECIES); HEARTWATER DISEASE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; UGANDA; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; TICK;

AMBLYOMMA VARIEGATUM; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EHRLICHIA RUMINANTIUM;

ANIMALS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; EHRLICHIA RUMINANTIUM; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; IXODIDAE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; UGANDA;

EID: 79960565558     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17563305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-3305-4-137     Document Type: Article

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