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SUBMITTER: Sarih M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC1081246 | biostudies-literature | 2005 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Sarih M'Hammed M M'Ghirbi Youmna Y Bouattour Ali A Gern Lise L Baranton Guy G Postic Danièle D
Journal of clinical microbiology 20050301 3
A broad-range 16S rRNA gene PCR assay followed by partial sequencing of the 16S rRNA gene was used for the detection of members of the family Anaplasmataceae in ticks in North Africa. A total of 418 questing Ixodes ricinus ticks collected in Tunisia and Morocco, as well as 188 Rhipicephalus ticks from dogs and 52 Hyalomma ticks from bovines in Tunisia, were included in this study. Of 324 adult I. ricinus ticks, 16.3% were positive for Ehrlichia spp., whereas only 3.4 and 2.8% of nymphs and larva ...[more]