Anaplasma marginale and Anaplasma phagocytophilum: Rickettsiales pathogens of veterinary and public health significance

Parasitology Research

Volumn 114, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 3941-3957

  Atif, Farhan Ahmad ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SARGODHA   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Anaplasma marginale; Anaplasma phagocytophilum; Control; Epidemiology

Indexed keywords

TETRACYCLINE DERIVATIVE;

ANAPLASMA MARGINALE; ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ANAPLASMOSIS; ANTIBODY BLOOD LEVEL; BLOOD SMEAR; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CONCURRENT INFECTION; CROSS REACTION; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; GROUPS BY AGE; HEALTH; HOST; HUMAN; HUMAN GRANULOCYTIC ANAPLASMOSIS; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSIS; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SEROLOGY; TICK BORNE DISEASE; VETERINARY HEALTH; ANIMAL; BOVINE; CATTLE DISEASES; DISEASE CARRIER; ECOLOGY; EHRLICHIOSIS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MAMMAL; MICROBIOLOGY; TICK; VETERINARY MEDICINE; WILD ANIMAL;

ANAPLASMA MARGINALE; ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ANAPLASMOSIS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; ANIMALS, WILD; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; DISEASE VECTORS; ECOLOGY; EHRLICHIOSIS; HUMANS; MAMMALS; PUBLIC HEALTH; TICKS; VETERINARY MEDICINE;

EID: 84942296444     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: 14321955     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-015-4698-2     Document Type: Review

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