Detection and characterization of p44/msp2 transcript variants of Anaplasma phagocytophilum from naturally infected ticks and wild deer in Japan

Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 79-83

  Gaowa, ^a   Wuritu, ^a   Wu, Dongxing ^a   Yoshikawa, Yuko ^a   Ohashi, Norio ^a   Kawamori, Fumihiko ^b   Sugiyama, Kanji ^b   Ohtake, Masayoshi ^c   Ohashi, Masataka ^c   Yamamoto, Seigo ^d   Kitano, Tomokazu ^d   Takada, Nobuhiro ^e   Kawabata, Hiroki ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHIZUOKA   (Japan)

^b SHIZUOKA INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENT AND HYGIENE   (Japan)

^c Shizuoka Prefectural Research Institute of Agriculture and Foresty   (Japan)

^d Miyazaki Prefectural Institute for Public Health and Environment   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF FUKUI   (Japan)

^f NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA;

ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; DEER; GENE CONVERSION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; INTRACELLULAR BACTERIUM; JAPAN; LIVESTOCK; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PHYLOGENY; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TICK;

ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DEER; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENETIC VARIATION; IXODES; JAPAN; PHYLOGENY; RNA, BACTERIAL; SALIVARY GLANDS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84863407805     PISSN: 13446304     EISSN: 18842836     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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