A new typing technique for the Rickettsiales Ehrlichia ruminantium: Multiple-locus variable number tandem repeat analysis

Journal of Microbiological Methods

Volumn 88, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 205-211

  Pilet, Héloïse ^a,d   Vachiéry, Nathalie ^b   Berrich, Moez ^a   Bouchouicha, Rim ^a,e   Durand, Benoît ^c   Pruneau, Ludovic ^b   Pinarello, Valérie ^b   Saldana, Angélique ^b   Carasco Lacombe, Catherine ^b   Lefrançois, Thierry ^b   Meyer, Damien F ^b   Martinez, Dominique ^b   Boulouis, Henri Jean ^a   Haddad, Nadia ^a  

^a ECOLE NATIONALE VÉTÉRINAIRE D ALFORT   (France)

^b UMR ASTRE   (France)

^c ANSES   (France)

^d PITIÉ SALPÊTRIÈRE HOSPITAL   (France)

^e UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

Author keywords

Ehrlichia ruminantium; Epidemiology; MLVA; Molecular typing; VNTR

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CENTRAL AMERICA; CONTROLLED STUDY; EHRLICHIA RUMINANTIUM; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GEOGRAPHIC ORIGIN; GOAT; INTRACELLULAR BACTERIUM; MULTIPLE LOCUS VARIABLE NUMBER TANDEM REPEAT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TICK; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; DNA, BACTERIAL; EHRLICHIA RUMINANTIUM; GOATS; HEARTWATER DISEASE; IXODIDAE; MINISATELLITE REPEATS; MOLECULAR TYPING; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

AMBLYOMMA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CAPRA HIRCUS; EHRLICHIA RUMINANTIUM; IXODIDA; RICKETTSIALES;

EID: 84856386925     PISSN: 01677012     EISSN: 18728359     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mimet.2011.11.011     Document Type: Article

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