New species of Ehrlichia isolated from Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplus shows an ortholog of the E. canis major immunogenic glycoprotein gp36 with a new sequence of tandem repeats

Parasites and Vectors

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Cruz, Alejandro Cabezas ^a   Zweygarth, Erich ^b   Ribeiro, Mucio Flavio Barbosa ^c   Da Silveira, Julia Angelica Gonçalves ^c   De La Fuente, Jose ^d,e   Grubhoffer, Libor ^a   Valdés, James J ^a   Passos, Lygia Maria Friche ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^d INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIÓN EN RECURSOS CINEGÉTICOS IREC CSIC UCLM JCCM   (Spain)

^e OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ehrlichia spp; Gp36 major immunogenic protein; Phylogenetic analysis; Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplus

Indexed keywords

CHAPERONIN 60; GLYCOPROTEIN; GLYCOPROTEIN GP36; RNA 16S; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BRAZIL; EHRLICHIA; EHRLICHIA CANIS; EHRLICHIA CHAFFEENSIS; EHRLICHIA EWINGII; EHRLICHIA MINEIRENSIS; EHRLICHIA MURIS; EHRLICHIA RUMINANTIUM; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PHYLOGENY; RHIPICEPHALUS (BOOPHILUS) MICROPLUS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TANDEM REPEAT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ARTHROPOD VECTORS; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; EHRLICHIA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GLYCOPROTEINS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RHIPICEPHALUS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; ZOONOSES;

ANIMALIA; BOOPHILUS; BOS; EHRLICHIA; EHRLICHIA CANIS; EHRLICHIA CHAFFEENSIS; EHRLICHIA RUMINANTIUM; IXODIDA; MAMMALIA; RHIPICEPHALUS;

EID: 84870718784     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17563305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-3305-5-291     Document Type: Article

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