Molecular and serological prevalence of Babesia bovis and Babesia bigemina in water buffaloes in the northeast region of Thailand

Veterinary Parasitology

Volumn 178, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 201-207

  Terkawi, Mohamad Alaa ^a   Huyen, Nguyen Xuan ^a   Shinuo, Cao ^a   Inpankaew, Tawin ^b   Maklon, Khuanwalai ^c   Aboulaila, Mahmoud ^a   Ueno, Akio ^a   Goo, Youn Kyoung ^a   Yokoyama, Naoaki ^a   Jittapalapong, Sathaporn ^b   Xuan, Xuenan ^a   Igarashi, Ikuo ^a  

^a OBIHIRO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b KASETSART UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^c MAHIDOL UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Babesia bigemina; Babesia bovis; ELISA; Epidemiology; IFAT; Nested PCR; Thailand; Water buffaloes

Indexed keywords

AGE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL PARASITOSIS; ARTICLE; BABESIA BIGEMINA; BABESIA BOVIS; BABESIOSIS; BUFFALO; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GENE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; INFECTION RATE; MIXED INFECTION; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RAP 1A GENE; SBP 4 GENE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEROPREVALENCE; THAILAND; WATER BUFFALO;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; BABESIA BOVIS; BABESIOSIS; BUFFALOES; DNA, PROTOZOAN; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; THAILAND;

BABESIA BIGEMINA; BABESIA BOVIS; BOVINAE; BUBALUS; IXODIDA;

EID: 79956277924     PISSN: 03044017     EISSN: 18732550     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetpar.2011.01.041     Document Type: Article

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