Distribution and molecular detection of Theileria and Babesia in questing ticks from northern Spain

Medical and Veterinary Entomology

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 318-325

  Garcia Sanmartin J ^a   Barandika, J F ^a   Juste, R A ^a   Garcia Perez A L ^a   Hurtado, A ^a  

^a NEIKER and a Vaccine producing Commercial Company CZVSL   (Spain)

Author keywords

Babesia; Co infection; PCR; Piroplasms; Questing tick; RLB; Spain; Theileria; Tick; Tick borne diseases

Indexed keywords

DISEASE; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; PARASITE; PROTOZOAN; TICK; VEGETATION;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BABESIA; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PARASITOLOGY; SPAIN; THEILERIA; TICK; TICK BORNE DISEASE;

ANIMALS; BABESIA; SPAIN; THEILERIA; TICK-BORNE DISEASES; TICKS;

EURASIA; EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

ANIMALIA; BABESIA; DERMACENTOR; DERMACENTOR RETICULATUS; HAEMAPHYSALIS CONCINNA; HAEMAPHYSALIS INERMIS; HAEMAPHYSALIS PUNCTATA; IXODES RICINUS; IXODIDA; RHIPICEPHALUS; RHIPICEPHALUS BURSA; THEILERIA;

EID: 56549129602     PISSN: 0269283X     EISSN: 13652915     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2915.2008.00748.x     Document Type: Article

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