PCR detection of Babesia ovata from cattle reared in Japan and clinical significance of coinfection with Theileria orientalis

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 2111-2113

  Sivakumar, Thillaiampalam ^a   Tagawa, Michihito ^a   Yoshinari, Takeshi ^a   Ybañez, Adrian P ^a   Igarashi, Ikuo ^a   Ikehara, Yuzuru ^b   Hata, Hiroshi ^c   Kondo, Seiji ^c   Matsumoto, Kotaro ^a   Inokuma, Hisashi ^a   Yokoyama, Naoaki ^a  

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

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^c HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APICAL MEMBRANE ANTIGEN 1;

AMA 1 GENE; ANEMIA; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BABESIA; BABESIA OVATA; BABESIOSIS; CATTLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; GENE; JAPAN; MIXED INFECTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PATHOGENESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; THEILERIA; THEILERIA ORIENTALIS; THEILERIOSIS;

ANEMIA; ANIMALS; BABESIA; BABESIOSIS; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; CLINICAL LABORATORY TECHNIQUES; COINFECTION; JAPAN; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES; PARASITOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; THEILERIA; THEILERIASIS; VETERINARY MEDICINE;

ANIMALIA; BABESIA OVATA; BOS; THEILERIA ORIENTALIS;

EID: 84862113951     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.00220-12     Document Type: Article

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