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. 2005 Aug;11(8):1322-4.
doi: 10.3201/eid1108.050085.

Anaplasma phagocytophilum, Sardinia, Italy

Alberto Alberti, Maria Filippa Addis, Olivier Sparagano, Rosanna Zobba, Bernardo Chessa, Tiziana Cubeddu, Maria Luisa Pinna Parpaglia, Mauro Ardu, Marco Pittau

Anaplasma phagocytophilum, Sardinia, Italy

Alberto Alberti et al. Emerg Infect Dis. 2005 Aug.
No abstract available

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Bootstrapped neighbor-joining tree of several species belonging to Rickettsiales and identification of the strains isolated during the study as Anaplasma phagocytophilum. Strains associated to Sardinian groEL variants are closely related to European and American pathogenic human granulocytic anaplasmosis strains. Numbers indicate statistically supported bootstrap values.
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Figure A1
Representative results of groEL heminested polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and HindIII digestion pattern. Lane 1: result of the first PCR round obtained with the strain NCH-1 used as control. Lanes 2, 4: results of the heminested PCR obtained with NCH-1 and with a symptomatic dog, respectively. Lanes 3, 5: HindIII digestions of amplicons shown in lanes 2 and 4, respectively. M:100 bp ladder.
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