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Isolation and Propagation of the Ap-Variant 1 Strain of <i>Anaplasma phagocytophilum</i> in a Tick Cell Line
3 May 2007
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The first tissue culture isolates of the unique Anaplasma phagocytophilum strain, Ap-Variant 1, were obtained in the Ixodes scapularis tick-derived cell line ISE6. Two isolates were from goat blood samples: one from a goat infected with I. scapularis ticks from Rhode Island and a second from a goat infected by serial passage of blood from the first infected goat. Eight isolates were made directly from I....
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