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A new genetic approach to distinguish strains of Anaplasma phagocytophilum that appear not to cause human disease.
Ticks and tick-borne diseases - 1 May 2021
Liveris Dionysios, Aguero-Rosenfeld Maria E, Daniels Thomas J, Karpathy Sandor, Paddock Christopher, Adish Sahar, Keesing Felicia, Ostfeld Richard S, Wormser Gary P, Schwartz Ira
Abstract excerpt
Genetic diversity of Anaplasma phagocytophilum was assessed in specimens from 16 infected patients and 16 infected Ixodes scapularis ticks. A region immediately downstream of the 16S rRNA gene, which included the gene encoding SdhC, was sequenced. For the A. phagocytophilum strains from patients no sequence differences were detected in this region. In contrast, significantly fewer ticks had a sequence encoding...
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