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Mining the genetic diversity of Ehrlichia ruminantium using map genes family.
Veterinary parasitology - 10 Feb 2010
Raliniaina Modestine, Meyer Damien F, Pinarello Valérie, Sheikboudou Christian, Emboulé Loic, Kandassamy Yane, Adakal Hassane, Stachurski Frédéric, Martinez Dominique, Lefrançois Thierry, Vachiéry Nathalie
Abstract excerpt
Understanding bacterial genetic diversity is crucial to comprehend pathogenesis. Ehrlichia ruminantium (E. ruminantium), a tick-transmitted intracellular bacterial pathogen, causes heartwater disease in ruminants. This model rickettsia, whose genome has been recently sequenced, is restricted to neutrophils and reticulo-endothelial cells of its mammalian host and to the midgut and salivary glands of its vector...
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