Isolation of canine Anaplasma phagocytophilum strains from clinical blood samples using the Ixodes ricinus cell line IRE/CTVM20

Veterinary Microbiology

Volumn 162, Issue 2-4, 2013, Pages 980-986

  Dyachenko, Viktor ^a   Geiger, Christine ^a   Pantchev, Nikola ^b   Majzoub, Monir ^a   Bell Sakyi, Lesley ^c   Krupka, Inke ^a   Straubinger, Reinhard K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b Vet Med Labor GmbH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anaplasma phagocytophilum; Dog; Electron microscopy; IRE CTVM20; Tick cell lines

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME RNA;

ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BLOOD SAMPLING; CELL LINE; CELL VACUOLE; CYTOPLASM; DOG; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GENE SEQUENCE; INCUBATION TEMPERATURE; IXODES RICINUS; NONHUMAN; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ANAPLASMOSIS; ANIMALS; CELL LINE; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; EHRLICHIOSIS; FEMALE; HL-60 CELLS; HUMANS; IXODES; MALE; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S;

ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ANIMALIA; CANIS FAMILIARIS; IXODES RICINUS; IXODES SCAPULARIS; IXODIDA;

EID: 84872490630     PISSN: 03781135     EISSN: 18732542     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetmic.2012.10.021     Document Type: Article

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