Natural transmission of zoonotic Babesia spp. By Ixodes ricinus ticks

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 320-322

  Becker, Claire A M ^a,b   Bouju Albert, Agnès ^a,b   Jouglin, Maggy ^a,b   Chauvin, Alain ^a,b   Malandrin, Laurence ^a,b,c  

^a CEMAGREF   (France)

^b LUNAM UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^c Epidemiology and Risk Analysis in Animal Health   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BABESIA; BABESIA DIVERGENS; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; ERYTHROCYTE; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; IXODES RICINUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE VECTOR; SALIVA; SALIVARY GLAND; SPECIES INVASION; SPOROZOITE; TICK; TICK BITE; ZOOLOGY;

ANIMALS; ARACHNID VECTORS; BABESIA; BABESIOSIS; CATTLE; DEER; ERYTHROCYTES; FEMALE; IXODES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SALIVARY GLANDS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPOROZOITES; ZOONOSES;

EID: 63849180590     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1502.081247     Document Type: Article

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