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Journal of Clinical Microbiology, January 2000, p. 448-449, Vol. 38, No. 1
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 (
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Natural Infection of Domestic Goats with
Ehrlichia 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.
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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.
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