Figure 1

Phylogenetic relationship of anaplasmae deposited in GenBank and detected in this study in tick samples. GenBank accession numbers: Slovenian patient [GenBank:AF033101], dog1 [GenBank:EU381150], dog2 [GenBank:EU381151], wild boar [GenBank:EU184703], red deer [GenBank:AF478562], roe deer1 [GenBank:AF478558], roe deer2 [GenBank:AF478564], A. phagocytophilum [GenBank:AY529490], A. marginale [GenBank:AF414865], Ehrlichia chaffeensis [GenBank:L10917]. The number on each branch shows the percent occurrence in 1,000 bootstrap replicates. Only different groESL sequences from I. ricinus are shown.