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Groupings of highly similar major surface protein (p44)-encoding paralogues: a potential index of genetic diversity amongst isolates of Anaplasma phagocytophilum.
Microbiology (Reading, England) - 1 Mar 2004
Casey A N J, Birtles R J, Radford A D, Bown K J, French N P, Woldehiwet Z, Ogden N H
Abstract excerpt
Anaplasma phagocytophilum is a tick-borne bacterium that is zoonotic in the USA and southern Europe, but although the bacterium is endemic in the UK, no cases of clinical human disease have yet been detected in that country. Potential genomic differences amongst UK and USA isolates were investigated by comparing partial 16S rRNA gene and p44 paralogue sequences amplified by PCR from 10 UK ruminant or tick...
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