Epidemiology and genetic diversity of anaplasma phagocytophilum in the San Francisco Bay Area, California

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 95, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 50-54

  Nieto, Nathan C ^a   Salkeld, Daniel J ^b,c  

^a NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; CALIFORNIA; CLADISTICS; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; LIZARD; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; TICK; ANAPLASMOSIS; ANIMAL; ARACHNID VECTOR; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; IXODES; MICROBIOLOGY; NYMPH;

BACTERIAL DNA;

ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ANAPLASMOSIS; ANIMALS; ARACHNID VECTORS; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENETIC VARIATION; IXODES; NYMPH; PREVALENCE; SAN FRANCISCO; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84977613848     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.15-0707     Document Type: Article

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