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Opening the black box of Anaplasma phagocytophilum diversity: current situation and future perspectives.
Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology - 1 Jan 2015
Dugat Thibaud, Lagrée Anne-Claire, Maillard Renaud, Boulouis Henri-Jean, Haddad Nadia
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Anaplasma phagocytophilum is a zoonotic obligate intracellular bacterium known to be transmitted by ticks belonging to the Ixodes persulcatus complex. This bacterium can infect several mammalian species, and is known to cause diseases with variable symptoms in many domestic animals. Specifically, it is the causative agent of tick-borne fever (TBF), a disease of important economic impact in European domestic...
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