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Heartwater--Ehrlichia ruminantium infection.
Revue scientifique et technique (International Office of Epizootics) - 1 Aug 2015
Allsopp B A
Abstract excerpt
Summary Heartwater is a notifiable disease that is listed by the World Organisation for Animal Health. It is caused by Ehrlichia ruminantium, an obligately intracellular Gram-negative bacterium in the order Rickettsiales and the family Anaplasmataceae. The disease is borne byticks in the genus Amblyomma and causes heartwater, or cowdriosis, in wild and domestic ruminants, primarily in Africa, but also in parts of...
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