Molecular evidence of Anaplasma phagocytophilum in Ixodes ricinus ticks and wild animals in Austria.
Real-time PCR analysis of a groESL heat shock operon segment showed the presence of two genetic lineages of Anaplasma phagocytophilum in Ixodes ricinus ticks as well as one variant in wild red and roe deer, the latter supposedly representing the natural reservoir of one variant of A. phagocytophilum.
Polin
Helene
H
Department of Neurology, Christian-Doppler-Klinik, Salzburg, Austria. h.polin@gmx.at
Hufnagl
Peter
P
Haunschmid
Reinhard
R
Gruber
Florian
F
Ladurner
Gunther
G
D041081:Anaplasma phagocytophilum / Q000235:genetics* / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D000818:Animals; D000835:Animals, Wild / Q000382:microbiology*; D001096:Arachnid Vectors / Q000382:microbiology; D001317:Austria; D001426:Bacterial Proteins / Q000235:genetics; D001483:Base Sequence; D018833:Chaperonins / Q000235:genetics; D017931:DNA Primers / Q000235:genetics; D004269:DNA, Bacterial / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification; D003670:Deer / Q000382:microbiology; D004197:Disease Reservoirs; D005798:Genes, Bacterial; D014644:Genetic Variation; D018884:Ixodes / Q000382:microbiology*; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009876:Operon; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction
D001426:Bacterial Proteins; D017931:DNA Primers; D004269:DNA, Bacterial; C097970:GroESL protein, Bacteria; D018833:Chaperonins