In vitro host erythrocyte specificity and differential morphology of Babesia divergens and a zoonotic Babesia sp. from eastern cottontail rabbits (Sylvilagus floridanus)

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 92, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 333-340

  Spencer, Angela M ^a   Goethert, Heidi K ^a,b   Telford III, Samuel R ^a,b   Holman, Patricia J ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME RNA;

GENE; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; MORPHOLOGY; PARASITE; PARASITE INFESTATION; RNA; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BABESIA DIVERGENS; BABESIOSIS; CELL STRUCTURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ERYTHROCYTE; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HOST RANGE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; MICROBIAL GROWTH; NONHUMAN; PARASITE ISOLATION; RABBIT; UNITED STATES; VALIDATION PROCESS; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALS; BABESIA; BABESIOSIS; CATTLE; ERYTHROCYTES; HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS; HUMANS; RABBITS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; ZOONOSES;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALIA; BABESIA; BABESIA DIVERGENS; BABESIA SP.; BOVINAE; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; SYLVILAGUS FLORIDANUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 33646468851     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1645/GE-662R.1     Document Type: Article

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