Genetic diversity of equine piroplasms in Greece with a note on speciation within Theileria genotypes (T. equi and T. equi-like)

Infection, Genetics and Evolution

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 963-968

  Kouam, Marc K ^a   Kantzoura, Vaia ^a   Masuoka, Penny M ^b   Gajadhar, Alvin A ^c   Theodoropoulos, Georgios ^a  

^a AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIVERSITY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^c Centre for Food Borne and Animal Parasitology   (Canada)

Author keywords

Babesia caballi; Bioclimatic variables; Equine piroplasms; Genotype; Land cover; RLB; Speciation; Theileria equi

Indexed keywords

RNA 18S;

ARTICLE; BABESIA; BABESIA BOVIS; BABESIA CABALLI; BABESIA CANIS CANIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA POLYMORPHISM; EQUINE PIROPLASMOSIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHY; GREECE; HYBRIDIZATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE ISOLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE LINE BLOT HYBRIDIZATION ASSAY; RNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPAIN; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; THEILERIA; THEILERIA EQUI;

ANIMALS; BABESIA; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; GREECE; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; THEILERIA; THEILERIASIS;

BABESIA; BABESIA BOVIS; BABESIA CABALLI; BABESIA CANIS CANIS; EQUIDAE; THEILERIA; THEILERIA EQUI;

EID: 77956268803     PISSN: 15671348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.meegid.2010.06.008     Document Type: Article

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