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- Title
Reservoir Competency of Goats for Anaplasma phagocytophilum.
- Authors
MASSUNG, ROBERT F.; LEVIN, MICHAEL L.; MILLER, NATHAN J.; MATHER, THOMAS N.
- Abstract
The susceptibility of goats to infection by Anaplasma phagocytophilum ( A. phagocytophilum) strains Ap-Variant 1 and Ap-ha was assessed by infestation of goats with field-collected Ixodes scapularis (I. scapularis) ticks. Both strains were infectious in the goat model. These results demonstrate that goats can be used in a laboratory setting to propagate A. phagocytophilum. Transmission from an infected goat to a naïve goat by I. scapularis tick feeding was used to demonstrate that goats are reservoir-competent for the Ap-Variant 1 strain.
- Subjects
ANAPLASMA; IXODES scapularis; TICK-borne diseases in animals; GOAT diseases; GOATS as laboratory animals; DISEASE vectors; INFECTIOUS disease transmission
- Publication
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 2006, Vol 1078, Issue 1, p476
- ISSN
0077-8923
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1196/annals.1374.088