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SUBMITTER: Chae Js
PROVIDER: S-EPMC85449 | biostudies-literature | 1999 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Chae J s Js Levy M M Hunt J J Schlater J J Snider G G Waghela S D SD Holman P J PJ Wagner G G GG
Journal of clinical microbiology 19990901 9
Theileria sp.-specific small subunit (SSU) rRNA gene amplification confirmed the presence of the organism in cattle and in Amblyomma americanum and Dermacentor variabilis ticks collected from a cattle herd in Missouri. Blood from the index animal had type A and type D Theileria SSU rRNA genes. The type D gene was also found in blood from two cohort cattle and tick tissues. The type A SSU rRNA gene was previously reported from bovine Theileria isolates from Texas and North Carolina; the type D ge ...[more]