Questing Dermacentor reticulatus harbouring Babesia canis DNA associated with outbreaks of canine babesiosis in the Swiss Midlands

Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 334-340

  Schaarschmidt, Daniel ^a   Gilli, Urs ^b   Gottstein, Bruno ^c   Marreros, Nelson ^d   Kuhnert, Peter ^c   Daeppen, JérÔme A ^c   Rosenberg, Gertrud ^c   Hirt, Didier ^c   Frey, Caroline F ^c  

^a Labor am Zugersee   (Switzerland)

^b IDEXX Diavet AG   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^d INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIÓN EN RECURSOS CINEGÉTICOS IREC CSIC UCLM JCCM   (Spain)

Author keywords

Babesia canis; Canine babesiosis; Dermacentor reticulatus; Dogs; PCR; Swiss Midlands

Indexed keywords

DNA; PROTOZOAL DNA; RNA 18S; SINGLE STRANDED RNA;

ARTICLE; AUTUMN; BABESIA; BABESIA CANIS; DERMACENTOR RETICULATUS; EPIDEMIC; GENE DOSAGE; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENOTYPE; HUNGARY; NONHUMAN; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PIROPLASMOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REINFECTION; RNA SEQUENCE; SWITZERLAND; TRAVEL;

ANIMALS; BABESIA; BABESIOSIS; DERMACENTOR; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; FEMALE; MALE; SWITZERLAND;

BABESIA; BABESIA CANIS; BABESIA CANIS CANIS; BABESIA SP.; CANIS FAMILIARIS; DERMACENTOR RETICULATUS; IXODIDA;

EID: 84877830945     PISSN: 1877959X     EISSN: 18779603     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ttbdis.2013.01.007     Document Type: Article

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