Genetic and ecologic variability among Anaplasma phagocytophilum strains, Northern Italy

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1082-1085

  Baráková, Ivana ^a,b   Derdáková, Markéta ^b   Carpi, Giovanna ^a,c   Rosso, Fausta ^a   Collini, Margherita ^a   Tagliapietra, Valentina ^a   Ramponi, Claudio ^d   Hauffe, Heidi C ^a   Rizzoli, Annapaola ^a  

^a RESEARCH AND INNOVATION CENTRE   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Slovakia)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d SANTA CHIARA HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; BLOOD SAMPLING; ECOLOGICAL VALIDITY; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; ITALY; IXODIDAE; LETTER; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PREVALENCE; PUBLIC HEALTH; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; ANAPLASMOSIS; ANIMAL; BIRD; CLASSIFICATION; DEER; DOG; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENETICS; HOST RANGE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; RODENT; SHEEP; TICK; TICK INFESTATIONS; VETERINARY; VIROLOGY;

BACTERIAL DNA; RNA 16S;

ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ANAPLASMOSIS; ANIMALS; BIRDS; DEER; DNA, BACTERIAL; DOGS; GENETIC VARIATION; HOST SPECIFICITY; HUMANS; ITALY; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; RODENTIA; SHEEP; TICK INFESTATIONS; TICKS;

EID: 84900991991     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid2006.131023     Document Type: Letter

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