Clinical bovine piroplasmosis caused by Babesia occultans in Italy

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 51, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 2432-2434

  Decaro, Nicola ^a   Larocca, Vittorio ^a   Parisi, Antonio ^b   Losurdo, Michele ^a,b   Lia, Riccardo Paolo ^a   Greco, Maria Fiorella ^a   Miccolis, Antonio ^c   Ventrella, Gianpiero ^a   Otranto, Domenico ^a   Buonavoglia, Canio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO ZOOPROFILATTICO SPERIMENTALE DELLA PUGLIA E DELLA BASILICATA   (Italy)

^c Veterinary Practice   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BABESIA; BABESIA BIGEMINA; BABESIA CAPREOLI; BABESIA CRASSA; BABESIA DIVERGENS; BABESIA MAJOR; BABESIA MOTASI; BABESIA OCCULTANS; BABESIA ODOCOILEI; BABESIA ORIENTALIS; BABESIA OVATA; BOVINE PIROPLASMOSIS; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; HEMATOCRIT; ITALY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PIROPLASMOSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ANIMAL; BABESIOSIS; BOVINAE; CATTLE DISEASES; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; EPIDEMIC; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PARASITOLOGY; VETERINARY;

BABESIA; BOVINAE; IXODIDA; PROTOZOA;

PROTOZOAL DNA;

ANIMALS; BABESIA; BABESIOSIS; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; ITALY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84879437901     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.00713-13     Document Type: Article

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