Detection of Kobe-type Babesia microti associated with Japanese human babesiosis in field rodents in central Taiwan and southeastern mainland China

Parasitology

Volumn 135, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 691-699

  Saito Ito, A ^a   Takada, N ^b   Ishiguro, F ^c   Fujita, H ^d   Yano, Y ^b   Ma, X H ^e   Chen, E R ^f  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FUKUI   (Japan)

^c Fukui Prefectural Institute of Public Health and Environmental Science   (Japan)

^d National Hospital Organization   (Japan)

^e ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^f KAOHSIUNG MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Asia; Babesia microti; Genotype; Human babesiosis; Internal transcribed spacers; Rodent; Serotype; Small subunit rRNA gene

Indexed keywords

INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER; SMALL SUBUNIT RIBOSOMAL RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BABESIA MICROTI; BABESIOSIS; CHINA; JAPAN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TAIWAN;

ANIMALS; BABESIA MICROTI; BABESIOSIS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHINA; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; JAPAN; PREVALENCE; RODENTIA; TAIWAN;

APODEMUS AGRARIUS; BABESIA; BABESIA MICROTI; CROCIDURA HORSFIELDII; NIVIVENTER CONFUCIANUS; RATTUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 44349122274     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: 14698161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0031182008004356     Document Type: Article

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