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Detection of a new pathogenic Babesia microti-like species in dogs.
Veterinary parasitology - 28 Apr 2000
Zahler M, Rinder H, Schein E, Gothe R
Abstract excerpt
Small babesiae in dogs are generally considered to belong to Babesia gibsoni. Here we describe the genotypic characterisation of small piroplasms found in the blood of a dog which suffered from clinical babesiosis. Pairwise identities as well as distance, parsimony and maximum likelihood analyses of the 18S rDNA clearly demonstrated that this isolate was only distantly related to the other canine piroplasms...
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