Nakao, Ryo; Stromdahl, E.Y.; Magona, Joseph W.; Faburay, Bonto; Namangala, Boniface; Malele, Imna; Inoue, Noboru; Geysen, Dirk; Kajino, Kiichi; Jongejan, Frans; Sugimoto, Chihiro
(BioMed Central, 2010)
BACKGROUND: The rickettsial bacterium Ehrlichia ruminantium is the causative agent of heartwater, a potential zoonotic disease of ruminants transmitted by ticks of the genus Amblyomma. The disease is distributed in nearly ...