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Reservoir competence of vertebrate hosts for Anaplasma phagocytophilum
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Reservoir competence of vertebrate hosts for Anaplasma phagocytophilum

Felicia Keesing, Michelle H Hersh, Michael Tibbetts, Diana J McHenry, Shannon Duerr, Jesse Brunner, Mary Killilea, Kathleen LoGiudice, Kenneth A Schmidt and Richard S Ostfeld
Emerging infectious diseases, Vol.18(12), pp.2013-2016
12/2012
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3201/eid1812.120919
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https://hdl.handle.net/2376/106175
PMCID: PMC3557888
PMID: 23171835
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Abstract

Vertebrates Animals Anaplasma phagocytophilum - isolation & purification Anaplasmosis - transmission Anaplasmosis - epidemiology Disease Reservoirs New York - epidemiology Ticks - microbiology
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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