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SUBMITTER: Barbet AF
PROVIDER: S-EPMC97690 | biostudies-literature | 2000 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Barbet A F AF Lundgren A A Yi J J Rurangirwa F R FR Palmer G H GH
Infection and immunity 20001101 11
Anaplasma marginale is a tick-borne pathogen, one of several closely related ehrlichial organisms that cause disease in animals and humans. These Ehrlichia species have complex life cycles that require, in addition to replication and development within the tick vector, evasion of the immune system in order to persist in the mammalian reservoir host. This complexity requires efficient use of the small ehrlichial genome. A. marginale and related ehrlichiae express immunoprotective, variable outer ...[more]