Analysis of the population structure of Anaplasma phagocytophilum using multilocus sequence typing

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Huhn, Christian ^a   Winter, Christina ^a   Wolfsperger, Timo ^a   Wüppenhorst, Nicole ^a   Strašek Smrdel, Katja ^b   Skuballa, Jasmin ^c   Pfäffle, Miriam ^c   Petney, Trevor ^c   Silaghi, Cornelia ^d   Dyachenko, Viktor ^d   Pantchev, Nikola ^e   Straubinger, Reinhard K ^d   Schaarschmidt Kiener, Daniel ^f   Ganter, Martin ^g   Aardema, Matthew L ^h   Von Loewenich, Friederike D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^c KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^e Vet Med Labor GmbH   (Germany)

^f Laboratory at Zugersee   (Switzerland)

^g UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE HANNOVER   (Germany)

^h PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CLONAL VARIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CARRIER; DOG; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; EUROPE; GEOGRAPHIC ORIGIN; HEDGEHOG; HORSE; HOST RANGE; HUMAN GRANULOCYTIC ANAPLASMOSIS; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; POPULATION STRUCTURE; WILD BOAR; ANAPLASMOSIS; ANIMAL; EHRLICHIOSIS; GENETICS; HUMAN; MICROBIOLOGY;

RNA 16S;

ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ANAPLASMOSIS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; EHRLICHIOSIS; HUMANS; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S;

EID: 84899442465     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0093725     Document Type: Article

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