Babesia lengau sp. nov., a novel Babesia species in Cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus, Schreber, 1775) populations in South Africa

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 48, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 2703-2708

  Bosman, Anna Mari ^a   Oosthuizen, Marinda C ^a   Peirce, Michael A ^b   Venter, Estelle H ^a   Penzhorn, Barend L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^b MP International Consultancy   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER 2; RNA 18S; PROTOZOAL DNA; PROTOZOAL RNA; RIBOSOMAL SPACER DNA; RIBOSOME DNA;

ARTICLE; BABESIA; BABESIA LENGAU; CHEETAH; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE SEQUENCE; MICROBIAL MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOZOAL GENETICS; SOUTH AFRICA; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; BABESIOSIS; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CYTOLOGY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PARASITOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PREVALENCE; RNA GENE; SEROTYPING; VETERINARY;

ACINONYX; ANIMALS; BABESIA; BABESIOSIS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; GENES, RRNA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PREVALENCE; RNA, PROTOZOAN; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEROTYPING; SOUTH AFRICA;

ACINONYX JUBATUS; BABESIA; BABESIA SP.; THEILERIA;

EID: 77955446849     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.02266-09     Document Type: Article

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