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SUBMITTER: Al-Khedery B
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4235736 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) 20140109 1
We have previously described a comparative genome analysis of nine strains of Anaplasma phagocytophilum that showed similarity between strains infecting humans and U.S. dogs and a more distant relationship with horse and ruminant strains. This suggested that it may be possible to distinguish human-infective strains using simple DNA sequence-based diagnostic tests. This would be of epidemiologic significance in identifying and tracking the presence of virulent strains in tick vector populations. ...[more]