An emerging tick-borne disease of humans is caused by a subset of strains with conserved genome structure

Pathogens

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 544-555

  Barbet, Anthony F ^a   Al Khedery, Basima ^a   Stuen, Snorre ^b   Granquist, Erik G ^b   Felsheim, Roderick F ^c   Munderloh, Ulrike G ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Anaplasmosis; Comparative genomics; High throughput sequencing; Msp2 p44; Pfam01617; Tick borne diseases

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE ANTIGEN;

ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; MSP2 GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; P44 GENE; PSEUDOGENE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TICK BORNE DISEASE;

EID: 84899425389     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20760817     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/pathogens2030544     Document Type: Article

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