Age-dependent dynamics of Theileria equi and Babesia caballi infections in southwest Mongolia based on IFAT and/or PCR prevalence data from domestic horses and ticks

Parasitology

Volumn 134, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 939-947

  Ruegg S R ^a   Torgerson, P ^a   Deplazes, P ^a   Mathis, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Babesia caballi; Epidemiology; General additive models; Horses; IFAT; Mongolia; Multiplex PCR; Theileria equi; Ticks

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANIMAL PARASITOSIS; ARTICLE; BABESIA CABALLI; BABESIOSIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DERMACENTOR NUTTALLI; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; FEMALE; HORSE DISEASE; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PERSISTENT INFECTION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROCONVERSION; THEILERIA; THEILERIA EQUI; TICK;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; ARACHNID VECTORS; BABESIA; BABESIOSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DERMACENTOR; DNA PRIMERS; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MONGOLIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; THEILERIA; THEILERIASIS; TICK INFESTATIONS;

ANIMALIA; BABESIA CABALLI; DERMACENTOR; EQUIDAE; EQUUS CABALLUS; IXODIDA; THEILERIA EQUI;

EID: 34250618308     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: 14698161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0031182007002405     Document Type: Article

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