Reservoir competence of vertebrate hosts for Anaplasma phagocytophilum

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 2013-2016

  Keesing, Felicia ^a,b   Hersh, Michelle H ^a,b   Tibbetts, Michael ^a   McHenry, Diana J ^a   Duerr, Shannon ^b   Brunner, Jesse ^c   Killilea, Mary ^d   LoGiudice, Kathleen ^e   Schmidt, Kenneth A ^f   Ostfeld, Richard S ^b  

^a BARD COLLEGE   (United States)

^b CARY INSTITUTE OF ECOSYSTEM STUDIES   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNION COLLEGE   (United States)

^f TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM CARRIER; BIRD; CONTROLLED STUDY; HIGH RESOLUTION MELTING ANALYSIS; HOST; HOST RESERVOIR COMPETENCE; HUMAN GRANULOCYTIC ANAPLASMOSIS; IXODIDAE; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ANAPLASMOSIS; ANIMALS; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; NEW YORK; TICKS; VERTEBRATES;

EID: 84869826688     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1812.120919     Document Type: Article

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