Epizootiology of babesia bovis and babesia bigemina in free-ranging White-tailed deer in northeastern Mxico

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 95, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 536-542

  Cantu C, Antonio ^a   Ortega S, J Alfonso ^a,b   García Vázquez, Zeferino ^a,c   Mosqueda, Juan ^a,c   Henke, Scott E ^a,c   George, John E ^a,d  

^a INIFAP CIRNE Campo Experimental Aldama   (Mexico)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY KINGSVILLE   (United States)

^c INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE INVESTIGACIONES FORESTALES   (Mexico)

^d AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RAP1 PROTEIN; PROTOZOAL DNA; PROTOZOON ANTIBODY;

ANTIBODY; DEER; HEMOPARASITE; MODEL TEST; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTOZOAN; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; SERUM; SPRING (SEASON);

ARTICLE; BABESIA BIGEMINA; BABESIA BOVIS; BABESIOSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIZOOTIOLOGY; FEMALE; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; NONHUMAN; PARASITE PREVALENCE; PARASITE VIRULENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEROLOGY; WHITE TAILED DEER; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; BABESIA; BLOOD; CATTLE; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DEER; ECOSYSTEM; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; MEXICO; PARASITOLOGY; RISK; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL MODEL; TICK INFESTATION;

COAHUILA; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; NUEVO LEON; TAMAULIPAS;

BABESIA; BABESIA BIGEMINA; BABESIA BOVIS; BOOPHILUS; BOOPHILUS BIGEMINA; BOOPHILUS BOVIS; BOS; BOVINAE; CERVIDAE; IXODIDA; ODOCOILEUS VIRGINIANUS; POACEAE; RHIPICEPHALUS; RHIPICEPHALUS ANNULATUS;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; BABESIA; BABESIA BOVIS; BABESIOSIS; CATTLE; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DEER; DNA, PROTOZOAN; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; LOGISTIC MODELS; MEXICO; ODDS RATIO; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RISK FACTORS; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; TICK INFESTATIONS;

EID: 73949101984     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1645/GE-1648.1     Document Type: Article

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