Diversity of Babesia and Theileria species in symptomatic and asymptomatic dogs in Croatia

International Journal for Parasitology

Volumn 39, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 843-848

  Beck, Relja ^a   Vojta, Lea ^a   Mrljak, Vladimir ^b   Marinculić, Albert ^a   Beck, Ana ^b   Živičnjak, Tatjana ^a   Cacciò, Simone M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

^c ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

Author keywords

Babesia; Dogs; Molecular detection; Sequence analysis; Theileria

Indexed keywords

RNA;

BLOOD; DISEASE; GENE; MAMMAL; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; PARASITE; PROTOZOAN; RNA; TICK;

ARTICLE; BABESIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROATIA; DOG; GENETIC VARIABILITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; THEILERIA; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

ANIMALS; BABESIA; BASE SEQUENCE; CROATIA; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTOZOAN INFECTIONS, ANIMAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; THEILERIA;

CROATIA; EURASIA; EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

BABESIA; BABESIA CABALLI; BABESIA CANIS CANIS; BABESIA CANIS VOGELI; BABESIA GIBSONI; CANIS FAMILIARIS; EQUIDAE; IXODIDA; THEILERIA; THEILERIA ANNAE; THEILERIA EQUI;

EID: 63449096754     PISSN: 00207519     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpara.2008.12.005     Document Type: Article

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