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High diversity of ankA sequences of Anaplasma phagocytophilum among Ixodes ricinus ticks in Germany.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Nov 2003
von Loewenich Friederike D, Baumgarten Birgit U, Schröppel Klaus, Geissdörfer Walter, Röllinghoff Martin, Bogdan Christian
Abstract excerpt
In Germany humans with acute granulocytic ehrlichiosis have not yet been described. Here, we characterized three different genes of Anaplasma phagocytophilum strains infecting German Ixodes ricinus ticks in order to test whether they differ from strains in other European countries and the United States. A total of 1,022 I. ricinus ticks were investigated for infection with A. phagocytophilum by nested PCR and...
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