Immunologic and molecular identification of Babesia bovis and Babesia bigemina in free-ranging white-tailed deer in Northern Mexico

Journal of Wildlife Diseases

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 504-507

  Cantu, Antonio ^a   Ortega S, J Alfonso ^a   Mosqueda, Juan ^b   Garcia Vazquez, Zeferino ^b   Henke, Scott E ^a   George, John E ^c  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE INVESTIGACIONES FORESTALES   (Mexico)

^c AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Babesia bigemina; Babesia bovis; Immunoflourescence; Mexico; Nested PCR; White tailed deer

Indexed keywords

BABESIA; BABESIA BIGEMINA; BABESIA BOVIS; BOOPHILUS; BOOPHILUS BIGEMINA; BOOPHILUS BOVIS; BOOPHILUS MICROPLUS; BOS; BOVINAE; CERVIDAE; IXODIDA; ODOCOILEUS VIRGINIANUS; RHIPICEPHALUS; RHIPICEPHALUS ANNULATUS;

EID: 34548299539     PISSN: 00903558     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7589/0090-3558-43.3.504     Document Type: Article

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