Identification of a New Type of Babesia Species in Wild Rats (Bandicota indica) in Chiang Mai Province, Thailand

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 850-854

  Dantrakool, Anchalee ^a   Somboon, Pradya ^c   Hashimoto, Tetsuo ^b   Saito Ito, Atsuko ^a  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^c Faculty of Medicine Chiang Mai University   (Thailand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BABESIA; BABESIA CANIS; BABESIA MICROTI; BABESIOSIS; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BANDICOTA INDICA; MALARIA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; THAILAND;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; BABESIA; BABESIOSIS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; PHYLOGENY; RATS; RNA, PROTOZOAN; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; RODENT DISEASES;

BABESIA; BABESIA CANIS; BABESIA MICROTI; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BANDICOTA; BANDICOTA INDICA; CANIS; PROTOZOA; RODENTIA;

EID: 1242269298     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.42.2.850-854.2004     Document Type: Article

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