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SUBMITTER: Bown KJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC1933113 | biostudies-literature | 2007 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Bown Kevin J KJ Lambin Xavier X Ogden Nicholas H NH Petrovec Miroslav M Shaw Susan E SE Woldehiwet Zerai Z Birtles Richard J RJ
Journal of clinical microbiology 20070418 6
Anaplasma phagocytophilum is a widely distributed tick-borne pathogen of humans, livestock, and companion animals. We used in silico methods to identify 10 variable-number tandem-repeat (VNTR) loci within the genome sequence of the A. phagocytophilum HZ strain and used these data to develop a multilocus VNTR-based typing scheme for the species. Having confirmed the stability of four of the loci in replicates of the A. phagocytophilum strain that had been subjected to different numbers of passage ...[more]