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Detection and characterization of p44/msp2 transcript variants of Anaplasma phagocytophilum from naturally infected ticks and wild deer in Japan.
Japanese journal of infectious diseases - 1 Jan 2012
Gaowa, Wuritu, Wu Dongxing, Yoshikawa Yuko, Ohashi Noiro, Kawamori Fumihiko, Sugiyama Kanji, Ohtake Masayoshi, Ohashi Masataka, Yamamoto Seigo, Kitano Tomokazu, Takada Nobuhiro, Kawabata Hiroki
Abstract excerpt
Anaplasma phagocytophilum is an obligate intracellular bacterium and causes a febrile illness in humans and livestock. In nature, this bacterium is sustained in a tick-mammal cycle. Several p44/msp2-related genes are expressed from a single expression locus by gene conversion. In this study, we obtained 119 cDNA sequences of p44/msp2 transcripts from A. phagocytophilum in 6 Haemaphysalis ticks and 3 wild sika...
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