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Molecular detection and characterization of Anaplasma phagocytophilum strains.
Comparative immunology, microbiology and infectious diseases - 1 Mar 2012
Paulauskas Algimantas, Radzijevskaja Jana, Rosef Olav
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The zoonotic rickettsial pathogen Anaplasma phagocytophilum has a broad geographic distribution and a high degree of biological and clinical diversity. To investigate the genetic diversity of A. phagocytophilum strains in the Baltic region and Norway, three species of Ixodidae ticks were examined for A. phagocytophilum infection, and two genes of the pathogen genome were analyzed. Analysis of partial 16S rRNA and...
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