Babesia divergens, a Bovine Blood Parasite of Veterinary and Zoonotic Importance

Clinical Microbiology Reviews

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 622-636

  Zintl, Annetta ^a   Mulcahy, Grace ^a   Skerrett, Helen E ^a   Taylor, Stuart M ^b   Gray, Jeremy S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b AGRI FOOD AND BIOSCIENCES INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

1,4 NAPHTHOQUINONE DERIVATIVE; ANTIPARASITIC AGENT; ATOVAQUONE; CHLOROQUINE; CLINDAMYCIN; IMIDOCARB DIPROPIONATE; MEFLOQUINE; PENTAMIDINE; PYRIMETHAMINE; QUININE; VACCINE;

BABESIA DIVERGENS; BABESIOSIS; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASE; CHEMOPROPHYLAXIS; EUROPE; EXCHANGE BLOOD TRANSFUSION; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; INFECTION RISK; IXODES RICINUS; NONHUMAN; PARASITE CONTROL; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PARASITE VECTOR; PARASITEMIA; PATHOGENESIS; REVIEW; VACCINATION; VETERINARY MEDICINE;

ANIMALS; BABESIA; BABESIOSIS; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; CRICETINAE; HUMANS; PARASITEMIA; RATS; ZOONOSES;

ACARI; BABESIA; BABESIA DIVERGENS; BOS TAURUS; BOVINAE; CINCHONA PUBESCENS; IXODES; IXODES RICINUS; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0142187146     PISSN: 08938512     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/CMR.16.4.622-636.2003     Document Type: Review

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