New Findings on Anaplasmosis Caused by Infection with Anaplasma phagocytophilum

• Published in: Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences Vol. 1081; no. 1; pp. 360 - 370
• Main Authors: LILLINI, EUGENIO, MACRÌ, GLADIA, PROIETTI, GABRIELLA, SCARPULLA, MANUELA
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Malden, USA Blackwell Publishing Inc 01.10.2006
• Subjects: Anaplasma; Anaplasma phagocytophilum; Anaplasma phagocytophilum - genetics; Anaplasma phagocytophilum - immunology; Anaplasma phagocytophilum - isolation & purification; anaplasmosis; Animals; Antibodies, Bacterial - blood; Arachnid Vectors - microbiology; DNA, Bacterial - analysis; dog; Dog Diseases - epidemiology; Dogs; Ehrlichia; Ehrlichia equi; Ehrlichia phagocytophila; Ehrlichiosis - epidemiology; horse; Horse Diseases - epidemiology; Horses; human; Humans; Italy - epidemiology; Ixodes - microbiology; Ixodes ricinus; Ixodidae; Polymerase Chain Reaction; Sheep; Sheep Diseases - epidemiology; Italy
• ISSN: 0077-8923; 1749-6632
• DOI: 10.1196/annals.1373.053

:  Ixodes ricinus (I. ricinus) is one of the vectors of Anaplasma phagocytophilum (A. phagocytophilum) in Europe, in which rates of infection range from 1.9% to 34%. In 1998, human granulocytic ehrlichiosis‐like (HGE‐like) Ehrlichia DNA was detected in Italy, by PCR technique in one I. ricinus nymph...