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Infection exclusion of the rickettsial pathogen anaplasma marginale in the tick vector Dermacentor variabilis.
Clinical and diagnostic laboratory immunology - 1 Jan 2003
de la Fuente José, Blouin Edmour F, Kocan Katherine M
Abstract excerpt
Anaplasma marginale is a tick-borne, rickettsial cattle pathogen that is endemic in several areas of the United States. Recent studies (J. de la Fuente, J. C. Garcia-Garcia, E. F. Blouin, J. T. Saliki, and K. M. Kocan, Clin. Diagn. Lab. Immunol. 9:658-668, 2002) demonstrated that infection of cultured tick cells and bovine erythrocytes with one genotype of A. marginale excluded infection with other genotypes, a...
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