A new ovine Babesia species transmitted by Hyalomma anatolicum anatolicum

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 122, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 261-267

  Guan, Guiquan ^a,b   Ma, Miling ^a   Moreau, Emmanuelle ^b   Liu, Junlong ^a   Lu, Bingyi ^a   Bai, Qi ^a   Luo, Jianxun ^a   Jorgensen, Wayne ^c   Chauvin, Alain ^b   Yin, Hong ^a  

^a State Key Laboratory of Veterinary Etiological Biology   (China)

^b LUNAM UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^c DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND FISHERIES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Babesia sp. Xinjiang; Experimental transmission; Hyalomma anatolicum anatolicum; Morphology; Virulence

Indexed keywords

DEXAMETHASONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BABESIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; EGG; ERYTHROCYTE; FEVER; HEMOLYMPH; HYALOMMA ANATOLICUM ANATOLICUM; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; INTESTINE; LARVA; MEROZOITE; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; NYMPH; OVARY; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PARASITE VIRULENCE; PARASITEMIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALIVARY GLAND; SHEEP; SPLENECTOMY; SYMPTOM; TICK;

ANIMALS; ARACHNID VECTORS; BABESIA; BABESIOSIS; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; ERYTHROCYTES; FEMALE; GOATS; HEMOLYMPH; IXODIDAE; LARVA; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION TECHNIQUES; NYMPH; OVARY; OVUM; PHYLOGENY; SALIVARY GLANDS; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASES; SPLENECTOMY; VIRULENCE;

BABESIA; BABESIA SP.; HYALOMMA ANATOLICUM ANATOLICUM; OVIS; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 67649126190     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: 10902449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exppara.2009.05.001     Document Type: Article

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