Persistently infected horses are reservoirs for intrastadial tick-borne transmission of the apicomplexan parasite Babesia equi

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 76, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 3525-3529

  Ueti, Massaro W ^a   Palmer, Guy H ^a   Scoles, Glen A ^b   Kappmeyer, Lowell S ^b   Knowles, Donald P ^a,b  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE PROTEIN; EMA 1 PROTEIN, BABESIA EQUI; EMA 2 PROTEIN, BABESIA EQUI; EMA-1 PROTEIN, BABESIA EQUI; EMA-2 PROTEIN, BABESIA EQUI; PARASITE ANTIGEN; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; APICOMPLEXA; ARTICLE; BABESIA EQUI; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; MALE; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; PARASITEMIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RESERVOIR; SALIVARY GLAND; TICK BORNE DISEASE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; BABESIA; BABESIOSIS; BIOSYNTHESIS; DISEASE CARRIER; HORSE; HORSE DISEASE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PARASITOLOGY; RHIPICEPHALUS;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; BABESIA; BABESIOSIS; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, HORIZONTAL; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; FEMALE; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; MALE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RHIPICEPHALUS; SALIVARY GLANDS; TICK-BORNE DISEASES;

EID: 48849083313     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.00251-08     Document Type: Article

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