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Journal of Clinical Microbiology, April 2000, p. 1364-1369, Vol. 38, No. 4
Department of Medicine and Epidemiology,
School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California, Davis,
California 95616,1 and Department of
Pathology, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine,
Baltimore, Maryland 212052
Received 2 August 1999/Returned for modification 10 November
1999/Accepted 29 December 1999
We examined 11 naturally occurring isolates of Ehrlichia
equi in horses and two human granulocytic ehrlichiosis
agent isolates in California for sequence diversity in three genes.
Ehrlichia equi isolates were from Sierra
(n = 6), Mendocino (n = 3), Sonoma (n = 1), and Marin (n = 1) counties,
and human granulocytic ehrlichiosis (HGE) agent isolates were obtained
from Humboldt county. PCR with specific primers for 16S rRNA, 444 Ep-ank and groESL heat shock operon genes
successfully produced amplicons for all 13 clinical samples. The 444 Ep-ank gene of the HGE agent and E. equi
isolates from northern California is different from the eastern U.S.
isolates BDS and USG3. The translated amino acid sequence of the
groESL heat shock operon gene fragment is identical among
E. equi, the HGE agent, and E. phagocytophila,
with the exception of the northern Californian equine
CASOLJ isolate. Microheterogeneity was observed in the 16S rRNA gene
sequences of HGE agent and E. equi isolates from northern
California. These results suggest that E. equi and the HGE
agent found in California are similar or identical but may differ from
the isolates of equine and human origin found in the eastern United States.
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Comparison of the Nucleotide Sequences of 16S rRNA, 444 Ep-ank, and groESL Heat Shock Operon Genes in
Naturally Occurring Ehrlichia equi and Human Granulocytic
Ehrlichiosis Agent Isolates from Northern California
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Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of
Medicine and Epidemiology, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of
California, Davis, CA 95616. Phone: (530) 752-1363. Fax: (530) 752-0414. E-mail: jemadigan{at}ucdavis.edu.
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