Prevalence of Babesia microti in free-ranging baboons and African green monkeys

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 97, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 63-67

  Maamun, Jeneby M ^a   Suleman, Mbaruk A ^a,b   Akinyi, Mercy ^a   Ozwara, Hastings ^a   Kariuki, Thomas ^a   Carlsson, Hans Erik ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF PRIMATE RESEARCH   (Kenya)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA TUBULIN; PROTOZOAL DNA;

INFECTIOUS DISEASE; PARASITE PREVALENCE; PARASITIC DISEASE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIMATE; PROTOZOAN; RANGE EXPANSION;

ARTICLE; BABESIA MICROTI; BABESIOSIS; BABOON; CHLOROCEBUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; INFECTION RATE; KENYA; MALE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; SEX DIFFERENCE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; CERCOPITHECUS; ERYTHROCYTE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MONKEY DISEASE; PAPIO ANUBIS; PARASITE VECTOR; PARASITEMIA; PARASITOLOGY; RHIPICEPHALUS; TICK INFESTATION;

ANIMALIA; BABESIA; BABESIA MICROTI; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; PAPIO; PAPIO ANUBIS; PRIMATES;

ANIMALS; ARACHNID VECTORS; BABESIA MICROTI; BABESIOSIS; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; ERYTHROCYTES; FEMALE; KENYA; MALE; MONKEY DISEASES; PAPIO ANUBIS; PARASITEMIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; RHIPICEPHALUS; TICK INFESTATIONS;

EID: 79953806762     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: 19372345     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1645/GE-2391.1     Document Type: Article

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