Table 2.

Details of the horses included in this study and the respective partial genes of Anaplasma phagocytophilum that were detected in them.

				Gene variantsc
Breed	Agea	Sexb	Month and year of diagnosis	16S rRNA	groEL	Msp2	Msp4
Pony	20	Mc	Jul 2007	B	b	I	c
Hanoverenian	n. k.	F	Oct 2007	B	b	I	c
Warmblood	6	Mc	Apr 2004	B	b	I	c
Standardbred	8	Mc	Jul 2004	B	b	I	c
Hanoverenian	13	F	May 2006	B	b	II	c
Westphalian Warmblood	11	Mc	Oct 2007	B	b	II	c
Pony	19	Mc	May 2008	B	b	II	c
English Thoroughbred	15	F	Jun 2008	B	b	II	c
Icelandic horse	9	Mc	Jun 2009	B	b	II	c
Friesian	12	M	Jun 2009	B	b	II	c
Quarter horse	n. k.	Mc	Jun 2009	B	b	II	c
Warmblood	9	Mc	Aug 2008	A	a	III	c
English Thoroughbred	11	Mc	May 2005	D	r	IV	d
Warmblood	13	Mc	Jun 2007	S	l	III	s

^a age in years at the time of diagnosis; n. k., not known

^bF, female; M, male; Mc, male castrated

^c See Table 1