Discrimination of Babesia major and Babesia ovata based on ITS1-5.8S-ITS2 region sequences of rRNA gene

Parasitology Research

Volumn 102, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 709-713

  Liu, Junlong ^a   Yin, Hong ^a   Liu, Guangyuan ^a   Guan, Guiquan ^a   Ma, Miling ^a   Liu, Aihong ^a   Liu, Zhijie ^a   Li, Youquan ^a   Ren, Qiaoyun ^a   Dang, Zhisheng ^a   Gao, Jinliang ^a   Bai, Qi ^a   Zhao, Haiping ^a   Luo, Jianxun ^a  

^a Chinese Agricultural Academy of Sciences   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER 1; INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER 2; RIBOSOME RNA;

ARTICLE; BABESIA; BABESIA MAJOR; BABESIA OVATA; CHINA; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; GENE SEQUENCE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE ISOLATION; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; BABESIA; BABESIOSIS; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; CHINA; DNA, PROTOZOAN; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; DOGS; GENES, RRNA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 5.8S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

BABESIA; BABESIA MAJOR; BABESIA OVATA; BOS; IXODIDA;

EID: 39749160326     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-007-0818-y     Document Type: Article

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