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Detection of the etiologic agent of human ehrlichiosis by polymerase chain reaction
1 Apr 1992
Abstract excerpt
Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) primers derived from a variable region of the 16S rRNA gene sequence were used to amplify DNA specifically from Ehrlichia chaffeensis (the recently proposed name for the etiologic agent of human ehrlichiosis). The 389-bp product defined by the specific primers was not detected when DNA samples from any of the other recognized species of Ehrlichia were used as amplification...
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