Prevalence and diversity of Babesia spp. in questing Ixodes ricinus ticks from Norway

Parasites and Vectors

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Øines, Øivind ^a   Radzijevskaja, Jana ^b   Paulauskas, Algimantas ^b   Rosef, Olav ^b,c  

^a NORWEGIAN VETERINARY INSTITUTE   (Norway)

^b VYTAUTAS MAGNUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

^c ATP Innovation AS   (Norway)

Author keywords

Babesia spp; Piroplasmosis; Prevalence; Questing Ixodes ricinus; Realtime PCR; Sequencing; Zoonosis

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ARTICLE; BABESIA; BABESIA CAPREOLI; BABESIA DIVERGENS; BABESIA VENATORUM; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC SCREENING; IXODES RICINUS; NONHUMAN; NORWAY; PARASITE PREVALENCE; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ANIMALS; ARACHNID VECTORS; BABESIA; BABESIOSIS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, PROTOZOAN; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IXODES; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NORWAY; NYMPH; PREVALENCE; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, PROTOZOAN; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; ZOONOSES;

BABESIA; BABESIA CAPREOLI; BABESIA DIVERGENS; BABESIA SP. EU1; IXODES RICINUS; IXODIDA; PIROPLASMIDA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84864522811     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17563305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-3305-5-156     Document Type: Article

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