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Detection and prevalence of Anaplasma phagocytophilum and Rickettsia helvetica in Ixodes ricinus ticks in seven study areas in Sweden

BACKGROUND: Tick-borne Anaplasma phagocytophilum and Rickettsia spp. are considered to be emerging human pathogens, but only limited data are available on their occurrence in Sweden. Two real-time PCR assays followed by nested PCR and sequence analysis were carried out to investigate the prevalence...

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Autores principales: Severinsson, Kristofer, Jaenson, Thomas G, Pettersson, John, Falk, Kerstin, Nilsson, Kenneth
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2923137/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20684755
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1756-3305-3-66