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ArticleEmerging infectious diseases2012

Wild boars as hosts of human-pathogenic Anaplasma phagocytophilum variants.

Jerzy Michalik, Joanna Stańczak, Stella Cieniuch, Maria Racewicz, Bożena Sikora, Mirosława Dabert

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Article in Emerging infectious diseases, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 33 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

33 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 58 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Jerzy MichalikDepartment of Animal Morphology, Faculty of Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland. michalik@amu.edu.pl
Joanna Stańczak
Stella Cieniuch
Maria Racewicz
Bożena Sikora
Mirosława Dabert
Poznań University of Technology · PLAdam Mickiewicz University in Poznań · PLGdańsk Medical University · PL

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

To investigate the potential of wild boars to host Anaplasma phagocytophilum, we analyzed bacterial 16S rRNA and ank genes. DNA sequencing identified several A. phagocytophilum variants, including a predominance of strains known to cause human disease. Boars are thus hosts for A. phagocytophilum, notably, strains associated with human granulocytic anaplasmosis.

Indexed as

Anaplasma phagocytophilumAnimalsBacteremiaCluster AnalysisDisease ReservoirsEhrlichiosisFemaleHumansIxodesMolecular TypingPhylogenyPolandPrevalenceRNA, BacterialRNA, Ribosomal, 16SSequence Analysis, RNARNA, BacterialRNA, Ribosomal, 16S

Identifiers

PMID22607827
PMCPMC3358146
OpenAlexW2031932426

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