| detection of a novel ehrlichia species in haemaphysalis longicornis tick from china. | we collected 2460 haemaphysalis longicornis ticks from vegetation in jiaonan county, shandong province, in june of 2013 and daishan county, zhejiang province, china, in may of 2015. the tick dna was subsequently amplified with nested polymerase chain reaction using ehrlichia common 16s rrna gene primers and ehrlichia ewingii species-specific groel and glta primers. we found 0.4% (3/780) of the ticks from zhejiang province contained ehrlichia dna that was different from all known ehrlichia specie ... | 2016 | 27135624 |