A real-time PCR assay for detection of the Ehrlichia muris-like agent, a newly recognized pathogen of humans in the upper Midwestern United States

Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 146-149

  Allerdice, Michelle E J ^a   Pritt, Bobbi S ^b   Sloan, Lynne M ^b   Paddock, Christopher D ^a   Karpathy, Sandor E ^a  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Ehrlichia muris; Ehrlichia muris like (EML) agent; Ehrlichiosis; Tick borne disease

Indexed keywords

PRIMER DNA;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL LYSATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DERMACENTOR VARIABILIS; EHRLICHIA MURIS; GENE AMPLIFICATION; LIMIT OF DETECTION; MOLECULAR PROBE; MOUSE; MUS MUSCULUS; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; UNITED STATES; VALIDATION PROCESS; CLASSIFICATION; EHRLICHIA; EHRLICHIOSIS; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

EHRLICHIA; EHRLICHIOSIS; HUMANS; MIDWESTERN UNITED STATES; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84947447965     PISSN: 1877959X     EISSN: 18779603     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ttbdis.2015.10.004     Document Type: Article

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