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Genetic variants of Ehrlichia phagocytophila, Rhode Island and Connecticut.
Emerging infectious diseases - 1 May 2002
Massung Robert F, Mauel Michael J, Owens Jessica H, Allan Nancy, Courtney Joshua W, Stafford Kirby C, Mather Thomas N
Abstract excerpt
Primers were used to amplify a 561-bp region of the 16S rRNA gene of Ehrlichia phagocytophila from Ixodes scapularis ticks and small mammals collected in Rhode Island and Connecticut. DNA sequences for all 50 E. phagocytophila-positive samples collected from 1996 through 1998 in southwestern Connecticut were identical to the sequence reported for E. phagocytophila DNA from confirmed human cases. In contrast, the...
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