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Infection of tick cells and bovine erythrocytes with one genotype of the intracellular ehrlichia Anaplasma marginale excludes infection with other genotypes.
Clinical and diagnostic laboratory immunology - 1 May 2002
de la Fuente José, Garcia-Garcia Jose C, Blouin Edmour F, Saliki Jeremiah T, Kocan Katherine M
Abstract excerpt
Anaplasma marginale, a tick-borne rickettsial pathogen of cattle, is endemic in several areas of the United States. Many geographic isolates of A. marginale that occur in the United States are characterized by the major surface protein 1a, which varies in sequence and molecular weight due to different numbers of tandem repeats of 28 or 29 amino acids. Recent studies (G. H. Palmer, F. R. Rurangirwa, and T. F....
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