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Anaplasma phagocytophilum in the highly endangered Père David's deer Elaphurus davidianus
Yi Yang1,2, Zhangping Yang3,4, Patrick Kelly5
1Jiangsu Co-innovation Center for the Prevention and Control of Important Animal Infectious Diseases and Zoonoses, Yangzhou University College of Veterinary Medicine, Yangzhou, Jiangsu, China.
Parasites & Vectors
|January 10, 2018
Abstract:
Eighteen of 43 (41.8%) Père David's deer from Dafeng Elk National Natural Reserve, China, were positive for Anaplasma phagocytophilum based on real-time FRET-PCR and species-specific PCRs targeting the 16S rRNA or msp4. To our knowledge this is the first report of A. phagocytophilum in this endangered animal.