Wild boars as hosts of human-pathogenic anaplasma phagocytophilum variants

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 998-1001

  Michalik, Jerzy ^a   Stańczak, Joanna ^b   Cieniuch, Stella ^b   Racewicz, Maria ^b   Sikora, Bozena ^a   Dabert, Mirosława ^a  

^a ADAM MICKIEWICZ UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GDANSK   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S;

16S RRNA GENE; ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ANKA GENE; ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; GENE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HOST; HUMAN GRANULOCYTIC ANAPLASMOSIS; IXODES RICINUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; WILD BOAR;

ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ANIMALS; BACTEREMIA; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; EHRLICHIOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IXODES; MOLECULAR TYPING; PHYLOGENY; POLAND; PREVALENCE; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; SUS SCROFA; SWINE; SWINE DISEASES;

EID: 84861208994     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1806.110997     Document Type: Article

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