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Applied and Environmental Microbiology, August 2003, p. 5001-5005, Vol. 69, No. 8
0099-2240/03/$08.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/AEM.69.8.5001-5005.2003
Copyright © 2003, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Characterization of Anaplasma marginale Isolated from North American Bison

José de la Fuente,1* Elizabeth J. Golsteyn Thomas,2 Ronald A. Van Den Bussche,3 Robert G. Hamilton,4 Elaine E. Tanaka,2 Susan E. Druhan,2 and Katherine M. Kocan1

Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine,1 Department of Zoology and Collection of Vertebrates, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma 74078,3 Canadian Food Inspection Agency, Lethbridge Laboratory, Animal Diseases Research Institute, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada T1J 3Z4,2 The Nature Conservancy, Tallgrass Prairie Preserve, Pawhuska, Oklahoma 740564

Received 3 April 2003/ Accepted 4 June 2003

Anaplasma marginale (Rickettsiales: Anaplasmataceae), a tick-borne pathogen of cattle, is endemic in tropical and subtropical regions of the world. Although serologic tests have identified American bison, Bison bison, as being infected with A. marginale, the present study was undertaken to confirm A. marginale infection and to characterize isolates obtained from naturally infected bison in the United States and Canada. Major surface protein (MSP1a and MSP4) sequences of bison isolates were characterized in comparison with New World cattle isolates. Blood from one U.S. bison was inoculated into a susceptible, splenectomized calf, which developed acute anaplasmosis, demonstrating infectivity of this A. marginale bison isolate for cattle. The results of this study showed that these A. marginale isolates obtained from bison were similar to ones from naturally infected cattle.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, 250 McElroy Hall, College of Veterinary Medicine, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK 74078. Phone: (405) 744-6745. Fax: (405) 744-5275. E-mail: jose_delafuente{at}yahoo.com.

Applied and Environmental Microbiology, August 2003, p. 5001-5005, Vol. 69, No. 8
0099-2240/03/$08.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/AEM.69.8.5001-5005.2003
Copyright © 2003, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.



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