title: Reservoir competence of vertebrate hosts for Anaplasma phagocytophilum.
abstract: Fourteen vertebrate species (10 mammals and 4 birds) were assessed for their ability to transmit Anaplasma phagocytophilum, the bacterium that causes human granulocytic anaplasmosis, to uninfected feeding ixodid ticks. Small mammals were most likely to infect ticks but all species assessed were capable of transmitting the bacterium, in contrast to previous findings.
authors.affiliation: Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York 12504, USA. keesing@bard.edu
authors.forename: Felicia
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Keesing
authors.forename: Michelle H
authors.initials: MH
authors.lastname: Hersh
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Tibbetts
authors.forename: Diana J
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: McHenry
authors.forename: Shannon
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Duerr
authors.forename: Jesse
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Brunner
authors.forename: Mary
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Killilea
authors.forename: Kathleen
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: LoGiudice
authors.forename: Kenneth A
authors.initials: KA
authors.lastname: Schmidt
authors.forename: Richard S
authors.initials: RS
authors.lastname: Ostfeld
mesh_terms: D041081:Anaplasma phagocytophilum / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D000712:Anaplasmosis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000635:transmission*; D000818:Animals; D004197:Disease Reservoirs; D009518:New York / Q000453:epidemiology; D013987:Ticks / Q000382:microbiology; D014714:Vertebrates