Fig. 1From: First identification of Anaplasma phagocytophilum in both a biting tick Ixodes nipponensis and a patient in Korea: a case reportGross findings of the tick removed from the right neck area of the patient. Dorsal view (a) and ventral view (b) of the tick. Identification of Ixodes nipponensis from the phylogenetic tree analysis based on the 16S rRNA gene of the tick of 367-bp amplicons produced from the conventional polymerase chain reaction (c)Back to article page