Genetic variants of Anaplasma phagocytophilum from 14 equine granulocytic anaplasmosis cases

Parasites and Vectors

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Silaghi, Cornelia ^a   Liebisch, Gabriele ^b   Pfister, Kurt ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b Zecklab   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHAPERONIN; MSP2 PROTEIN; MSP4 PROTEIN; PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; RNA 16S; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BACTERIAL DNA; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; P44 PROTEIN, ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILA; RIBOSOME DNA;

ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ANAPLASMATACEAE INFECTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA EXTRACTION; EQUINE GRANULOCYTIC ANAPLASMOSIS; FEMALE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HORSE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA SEQUENCE; ANAPLASMOSIS; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; GERMANY; HORSE DISEASE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS;

ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CAPREOLUS; EQUIDAE; IXODES RICINUS; IXODIDA;

ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ANAPLASMOSIS; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; CHAPERONIN 60; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; GERMANY; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 80051649829     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17563305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-3305-4-161     Document Type: Article

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