Assessment of Domestic Goats as Models for Experimental and Natural Infection with the North American Isolate of Rickettsia slovaca

Nicole Lukovsky-Akhsanov; M. Kelly Keating; Pamela Spivey; George W. Lathrop Jr.; Nathaniel Powell; Michael L. Levin

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0165007

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Assessment of Domestic Goats as Models for Experimental and Natural Infection with the North American Isolate of Rickettsia slovaca

Nicole Lukovsky-Akhsanov ,

* E-mail: YJN2@cdc.gov

Affiliation Comparative Medicine Branch, Division of Scientific Resources, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
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M. Kelly Keating,

Affiliation Infectious Diseases Pathology Branch, Division of High-Consequence Pathogens and Pathology, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
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Pamela Spivey,

Affiliation Infectious Diseases Pathology Branch, Division of High-Consequence Pathogens and Pathology, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
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George W. Lathrop Jr.,

Affiliation Comparative Medicine Branch, Division of Scientific Resources, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
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Nathaniel Powell,

Affiliation Comparative Medicine Branch, Division of Scientific Resources, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
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Michael L. Levin

Affiliation Rickettsial Zoonoses Branch, Division of Viral and Rickettsial Diseases, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
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Assessment of Domestic Goats as Models for Experimental and Natural Infection with the North American Isolate of Rickettsia slovaca

Nicole Lukovsky-Akhsanov,
M. Kelly Keating,
Pamela Spivey,
George W. Lathrop Jr.,
Nathaniel Powell,
Michael L. Levin

Published: October 14, 2016
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0165007

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