Intravascular persistence of Anaplasma platys, Ehrlichia chaffeensis, and Ehrlichia ewingii DNA in the blood of a dog and two family members.

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Published in Parasit Vectors on July 01, 2014

Authors

Edward B Breitschwerdt1, Barbara C Hegarty, Barbara A Qurollo, Tais B Saito, Ricardo G Maggi, Lucas S Blanton, Donald H Bouyer

Author Affiliations

1: Intracellular Pathogens Research Laboratory and the Center for Comparative Medicine and Translational Research, College of Veterinary Medicine, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA. ed_breitschwerdt@ncsu.edu.

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