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Preliminary evaluation of the BrEMA1 gene as a tool for associating babesia rossi genotypes and clinical manifestation of canine Babesiosis.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Nov 2009
Matjila P T, Carcy B, Leisewitz A L, Schetters T, Jongejan F, Gorenflot A, Penzhorn B L
Abstract excerpt
Babesia rossi, an intraerythrocytic protozoan, causes a severe, often life-threatening disease of domestic dogs. Dogs treated early for B. rossi infection usually recover from the disease, but dogs left untreated or treated at a later stage of infection seldom survive. Dogs infected with B. rossi have varied clinical manifestations that can be categorized as uncomplicated (with a good prognosis) or complicated...
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