The bacterium Anaplasma phagocytophilum has for decades been known to cause the
disease tick-borne fever (TBF) in domestic ruminants in Ixodes ricinus-infested areas in …

Recently, the incidence and awareness of tick-borne diseases in humans and animals have
increased due to several factors, which in association favor the chances of contact among …

Eight dogs from western Washington State suspected of being infected with Anaplasma
phagocytophilum because of the finding of morulae in peripheral blood neutrophils were …

Supported in part by the Winn Feline Foundation. Address correspondence to Dr. Lappin.
ranging from 1: 20 to 1: 640. Slides were incubated at 37oC in a humidified chamber for 30 …

The ehrlichioses have been subject to increasing interest from veterinary and public health
perspectives, but experimental studies of these diseases and their etiologic agents can be …

Wild deer are one of the important natural reservoir hosts of Anaplasma species, which
cause granulocytic anaplasmosis in equines, canines, and humans. The objective of the …

ABSTRACT A total of 41 blood samples were collected from 40 Anaplasma phagocytophila-
infected sheep in 11 sheep flocks from four different counties of southern Norway. The …

The term ehrlichiosis has been broadly applied to a variety of diseases of humans and
animals caused by pathogens formerly classified in the genus Ehrlichia. However, a recently …

The present study aims to detect and characterize by molecular techniques, the presence of
tick-borne pathogens in wild captive carnivore blood samples from Brazil. Blood was …

Five-month-old lambs were experimentally infected with two 16S rRNA genetic variants of
Anaplasma phagocytophilum, variants 1 (GenBank accession no. M73220) and 2 (GenBank …