Epidemiology, genetic variants and clinical course of natural infections with Anaplasma phagocytophilum in a dairy cattle herd

Epidemiology, genetic variants and clinical course of natural infections with Anaplasma phagocytophilum in a dairy cattle herd

Abstract Background Anaplasma phagocytophilum is an obligate intracellular, tick-transmitted bacterium that causes granulocytic anaplasmosis in humans and several mammalian species including domestic ruminants where it is called tick-borne fever (TBF). Different genetic variants exist but their impa...

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Main Authors: Cornelia Silaghi, Marion Nieder, Carola Sauter-Louis, Gabriela Knubben-Schweizer, Kurt Pfister, Martin Pfeffer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2018-01-01
Series:Parasites & Vectors
Subjects:
Anaplasma phagocytophilum
Cattle
Tick-borne fever
Ixodes ricinus
16S rRNA gene
groEL gene
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13071-017-2570-1

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