The pathogen-occupied vacuoles of Anaplasma phagocytophilum and Anaplasma marginale interact with the endoplasmic reticulum

The genus Anaplasma consists of tick-transmitted obligate intracellular bacteria that invade white or red blood cells to cause debilitating and potentially fatal infections. A. phagocytophilum, a human and veterinary pathogen, infects neutrophils to cause granulocytic anaplasmosis. A. marginale inva...

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Main Authors: Hilary Kay Truchan, Chelsea Leigh Cockburn, Kathryn Shirley Hebert, Forgivemore eMagunda, Susan Marite Noh, Jason A Carlyon
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2016-03-01
Series:Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fcimb.2016.00022/full