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Isolation of Anaplasma phagocytophilum strain Ap-variant 1 in a tick-derived cell line.
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences - 1 Oct 2006
Massung Robert F, Levin Michael L, Munderloh Ulrike G, Silverman David J, Lynch Meghan J, Kurtti Timothy J
Abstract excerpt
Ten isolates of the Ap-Variant 1 strain of Anaplasma phagocytophilum were made in the Ixodes scapularis (I. scapularis)-derived cell line, ISE6. Two isolates were obtained from laboratory-infected goats and eight isolates were obtained from field-collected I. scapularis ticks. Each isolate showed 16S rRNA sequences identical to those as previously described for the Ap-Variant 1 strain. These are the first tissue...
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