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Genotyping of Babesia bigemina from cattle from a non-endemic area (Switzerland).
Veterinary parasitology - 10 Apr 2007
Hilpertshauser H, Deplazes P, Meli M L, Hofmann-Lehmann R, Lutz H, Mathis A
Abstract excerpt
In August 2002, bovine anaplasmosis and concurrent infections with Mycoplasma sp. and piroplasms were reported in a cattle herd in an alpine region of Switzerland. The piroplasms were identified by PCR/sequencing of part of the 18S rRNA gene as Babesia bigemina and Theileria of the buffeli/sergenti/orientalis-complex, which have never been diagnosed in Switzerland before. The B. bigemina isolate was genetically...
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