Detection of natural infection of Boophilus microplus with Babesia equi and Babesia caballi in Brazilian horses using nested polymerase chain reaction

Veterinary Parasitology

Volumn 107, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 351-357

  Battsetseg, Badgar ^a,b   Lucero, Susana ^b   Xuan, Xuenan ^b   Claveria, Florencia G ^b,c   Inoue, Noboru ^b   Alhassan, Andy ^b   Kanno, Tsutomo ^d   Igarashi, Ikuo ^b   Nagasawa, Hideyuki ^b   Mikami, Takeshi ^b   Fujisaki, Kozo ^b  

^a GIFU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b OBIHIRO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c DE LA SALLE UNIVERSITY   (Philippines)

^d EMBRAPA CERRADOS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Boophilus microplus; Equine Babesia spp.; Nested PCR; Transovarial transtadial transmission

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BABESIA CABALLI; BABESIA EQUI; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BLOOD SAMPLING; BLOOD SMEAR; BLOOD STAIN; BOOPHILUS MICROPLUS; BRAZIL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; FEMALE; HORSE; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NESTING; NONHUMAN; PARASITE; PARASITOSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TICK; ULTRASTRUCTURE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; BABESIA; BABESIOSIS; CHEMISTRY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; GENETICS; GIEMSA STAIN; HORSE DISEASE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE VECTOR; PARASITOLOGY;

ANIMAL; ARACHNID VECTORS; AZURE STAINS; BABESIA; BABESIOSIS; BASE SEQUENCE; BRAZIL; DNA, PROTOZOAN; FEMALE; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; IXODIDAE; MALE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; ANIMALS;

ACARI; BABESIA; BABESIA CABALLI; BABESIA EQUI; BOOPHILUS MICROPLUS; EQUIDAE; EQUUS CABALLUS;

PROTOZOAL DNA;

EID: 0037158454     PISSN: 03044017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-4017(02)00131-0     Document Type: Article

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