Reservoir Competence of Vertebrate Hosts for Anaplasma phagocytophilum

Fourteen vertebrate species (10 mammals and 4 birds) were assessed for their ability to transmit Anaplasma phagocytophilum, the bacterium that causes human granulocytic anaplasmosis, to uninfected feeding ixodid ticks. Small mammals were most likely to infect ticks but all species assessed were capa...

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Autores principales: Keesing, Felicia, Hersh, Michelle H., Tibbetts, Michael, McHenry, Diana J., Duerr, Shannon, Brunner, Jesse, Killilea, Mary, LoGiudice, Kathleen, Schmidt, Kenneth A., Ostfeld, Richard S.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2012
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Dispatch
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3557888/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23171835
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid1812.120919
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Sumario:Fourteen vertebrate species (10 mammals and 4 birds) were assessed for their ability to transmit Anaplasma phagocytophilum, the bacterium that causes human granulocytic anaplasmosis, to uninfected feeding ixodid ticks. Small mammals were most likely to infect ticks but all species assessed were capable of transmitting the bacterium, in contrast to previous findings.

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