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Journal of Clinical Microbiology, January 2000, p. 448-449, Vol. 38, No. 1
0095-1137/0/$04.00+0
Copyright © 2000, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.
Natural Infection of Domestic Goats with
Ehrlichia chaffeensis
Vivien G.
Dugan,1
Susan E.
Little,1,*
David E.
Stallknecht,2 and
Ashley D.
Beall1
Department of Medical Microbiology and
Parasitology1 and Southeastern
Cooperative Wildlife Disease Study,2
College of Veterinary Medicine, The University of Georgia, Athens,
Georgia 30602
Received 21 July 1999/Returned for modification 31 August
1999/Accepted 19 October 1999
Thirty-eight domestic goats from an area of Ehrlichia
chaffeensis endemicity were tested for antibodies reactive to
E. chaffeensis and for E. chaffeensis-specific
16S rRNA gene fragments by an indirect fluorescent antibody test and a
nested PCR assay, respectively. Twenty-eight of 38 (73.7%) goats had
antibodies reactive to E. chaffeensis (
1:128), and 6 of
38 (15.8%) goats were positive by diagnostic PCR; E. chaffeensis was isolated in cell culture from one goat. Our data
indicate that goats in areas of endemicity are naturally exposed to and
infected with E. chaffeensis.
*
Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of
Medical Microbiology and Parasitology, College of Veterinary Medicine, The University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602. Phone: (706) 542-8447. Fax: (706) 542-0059. E-mail:
slittle{at}calc.vet.uga.edu.
Journal of Clinical Microbiology, January 2000, p. 448-449, Vol. 38, No. 1
0095-1137/0/$04.00+0
Copyright © 2000, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.
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