Survey of Rodents and Ticks in Human Babesiosis Emergence Area in Japan: First Detection of Babesia microti-Like Parasites in Ixodes ovatus

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 2268-2270

  Saito Ito, Atsuko ^a   Yano, Yasuhiro ^b   Dantrakool, Anchalee ^a   Hashimoto, Tetsuo ^c   Takada, Nobuhiro ^b  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FUKUI   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BABESIA MICROTI; BABESIOSIS; EPIZOOTIOLOGY; HUMAN; IXODES; IXODES OVATUS; JAPAN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PARASITE VECTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RODENT; TICK;

ANIMALS; BABESIA MICROTI; BABESIOSIS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; HUMANS; IXODES; JAPAN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MURIDAE; PHYLOGENY; SHREWS; ZOONOSES;

ACARI; ARACHNIDA; BABESIA; BABESIA MICROTI; HEXAPODA; IXODES; IXODES OVATUS; OVATUS; PROTOZOA; RODENTIA;

EID: 2442556107     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.42.5.2268-2270.2004     Document Type: Article

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