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Enzootic Babesia microti in Maine.
The Journal of parasitology - 1 Oct 2003
Goethert H K, Lubelcyzk C, LaCombe E, Holman M, Rand P, Smith R P, Telford S R
Abstract excerpt
Human babesiosis in the northeastern United States caused by Babesia microti (Apicomplexa: Piroplasmida) is mainly reported from coastal New England sites, where deer ticks (Ixodes dammini) are common. However, the piroplasm has been detected in microtine rodents elsewhere in association with I. angustus or other nidicolous ticks, suggesting that the agent is widely distributed but zoonotically significant only...
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