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. 2000 Jan;38(1):448-9.
doi: 10.1128/JCM.38.1.448-449.2000.

Natural infection of domestic goats with Ehrlichia chaffeensis

V G Dugan  1 , S E Little, D E Stallknecht, A D Beall
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Natural infection of domestic goats with Ehrlichia chaffeensis

V G Dugan et al. J Clin Microbiol. 2000 Jan.

Abstract

Thirty-eight domestic goats from an area of Ehrlichia chaffeensis endemicity were tested for antibodies reactive to E. chaffeensis and for E. chaffeensis-specific 16S rRNA gene fragments by an indirect fluorescent antibody test and a nested PCR assay, respectively. Twenty-eight of 38 (73.7%) goats had antibodies reactive to E. chaffeensis (>/=1:128), and 6 of 38 (15.8%) goats were positive by diagnostic PCR; E. chaffeensis was isolated in cell culture from one goat. Our data indicate that goats in areas of endemicity are naturally exposed to and infected with E. chaffeensis.

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