Prevalence of human-Active and variant 1 strains of the tick-borne pathogen Anaplasma phagocytophilum in hosts and forests of Eastern North America

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 91, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 302-309

  Keesing, Felicia ^a   McHenry, Diana J ^a   Hersh, Michelle ^a,b   Tibbetts, Michael ^a   Brunner, Jesse L ^a,c   Killilea, Mary ^a,d   LoGiudice, Kathleen ^a,e   Schmidt, Kenneth A ^a,f   Ostfeld, Richard S ^a,g  

^a BARD COLLEGE   (United States)

^b SARAH LAWRENCE COLLEGE   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNION COLLEGE   (United States)

^f TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g CARY INSTITUTE OF ECOSYSTEM STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA;

AMERICAN ROBIN; ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ANAPLASMOSIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOREST; IXODES SCAPULARIS; KOALA; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NORTH AMERICA; OPOSSUM; PEROMYSCUS; PREVALENCE; RACCOON; SCIURIDAE; SHREW; SKUNK; TAMIAS;

ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ANAPLASMOSIS; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; HUMANS; IXODES; LARVA; NORTH AMERICA; NYMPH; PEROMYSCUS; PREVALENCE; RODENT DISEASES; RODENTIA; SCIURIDAE; TREES;

EID: 84907190055     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.13-0525     Document Type: Article

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