Patent ID: 8206908

Claim:
A method for the strain-specific detection of Ehrlichia ruminantium wherein said method comprises determining, for each of the following set of target genes: Erum1, defined by the sequence SEQ ID NO: 6 Erum2, defined by the sequence SEQ ID NO: 3 Erum3, defined by the sequence SEQ ID NO: 1 Erum4, defined by the sequence SEQ ID NO: 4 Erum5, defined by the sequence SEQ ID NO: 2 Erum6, defined by the sequence SEQ ID NO: 5 Erum7, defined by the sequence SEQ ID NO: 13 Erum8, defined by the sequence SEQ ID NO: 15 Erum9, defined by the sequence SEQ ID NO: 14 Erum10, defined by the sequence SEQ ID NO: 8, whether said gene is present in a sample of bacteria to be tested.