Specific molecular detection of anaplasma sp. closely related to anaplasma phagocytophilum in ixodid ticks and cattle in a Pastureland in Hokkaido, Japan

Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 6-11

  Ybañez, Adrian P ^a,b   Tagawa, Michihito ^a,b   Matsumoto, Kotaro ^a   Kishimoto, Toshio ^c   Yokoyama, Naoaki ^a   Inokuma, Hisashi ^a,b  

^a OBIHIRO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b GIFU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Okayama Prefectural Institute for Environmental Science and Public Health   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anaplasma phagocytophilum; Anaplasma sp.; Cattle; Heat shock operon; Ticks

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; RNA 16S; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CHAPERONIN 60; PRIMER DNA; RIBOSOME DNA;

ANAPLASMA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CATTLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; HEAT SHOCK OPERON GENE; IXODIDAE; JAPAN; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ANIMAL; BOVINAE; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; EHRLICHIOSIS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; IXODES; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANAPLASMA; ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; BOS; IXODIDA;

ANAPLASMA; ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CATTLE; CHAPERONIN 60; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; EHRLICHIOSIS; IXODES; JAPAN; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84872186517     PISSN: 15303667     EISSN: 15577759     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/vbz.2012.0963     Document Type: Article

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