Autochthonous cases of canine babesiosis in the canton Solothurn;Autochthone fälle von caniner babesiose im kanton Solothurn

Schweizer Archiv fur Tierheilkunde

Volumn 147, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 259-265

  Sager, H ^a,d   Casati, S ^b   Hartmeier, G ^c   Sommer, B ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b Istituto Cantonale di Microbiologia   (Switzerland)

^c Tierklinik AW   (Switzerland)

^d VETSUISSE FACULTY UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Babesia canis; Immunofluorescence; PCR; Rhipicephalus sanguineus

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME RNA;

ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; BABESIA; BABESIA CANIS; BABESIOSIS; BLOOD SAMPLING; BLOOD SMEAR; BODY TEMPERATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA ISOLATION; DOG; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FEMALE; GENE SEQUENCE; HEMOGLOBINURIA; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; LIFE CYCLE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITE VECTOR; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROBABILITY; RHIPICEPHALUS SANGUINEUS; RNA GENE; SEROCONVERSION; SWITZERLAND; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TICK;

ACARI; BABESIA; BABESIA CANIS; CANIS FAMILIARIS; DERMACENTOR MARGINATUS; RHIPICEPHALUS SANGUINEUS;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; BABESIA; BABESIOSIS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; FEMALE; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 20544463397     PISSN: 00367281     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1024/0036-7281.147.6.259     Document Type: Article

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