Not "out of Nantucket": Babesia microti in southern New England comprises at least two major populations

Parasites and Vectors

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Goethert, Heidi K ^a   Telford, Sam R ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Babesia microti; Emergence; Epidemiology; New England; VNTR

Indexed keywords

BABESIA MICROTI; CONNECTICUT; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE FREQUENCY; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MASSACHUSETTS; MOST PROBABLE NUMBER; NONHUMAN; PARASITE; POPULATION STRUCTURE; RHODE ISLAND; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT; VINEYARD; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE MODEL; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; IXODES; PARASITOLOGY; RODENT; UNITED STATES;

PROTOZOAL DNA;

ANIMALS; BABESIA MICROTI; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DNA, PROTOZOAN; GENOTYPE; IXODES; NEW ENGLAND; RODENTIA;

EID: 84989191842     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17563305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13071-014-0546-y     Document Type: Article

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