Experimental anaplasmosis in American bison: persistence of infections of Anaplasma marginale and non-susceptibility to A. ovis.
Blood collected 314 and 496 days after experimentally infecting splenectomized and spleen-intact American bison (Bison bison) with Anaplasma marginale was infective for splenectomized bovine steers. The pathogenesis was identical to that seen in bovine studies using bovine blood inoculations. A splenectomized bison remained normal clinically, hematologically and serologically for 10 mo after repeated inoculation of ovine blood infected with A. ovis.
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D000709:Anaplasma / Q000472:pathogenicity*; D000712:Anaplasmosis / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000382:microbiology*; D000818:Animals; D001188:Artiodactyla; D002353:Carrier State / Q000382:microbiology / Q000662:veterinary*; D002417:Cattle; D004198:Disease Susceptibility; D008297:Male; D012756:Sheep; D013156:Splenectomy