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Evidence for extensive genetic diversity and substructuring of the Babesia bovis metapopulation.
Transboundary and emerging diseases - 1 Nov 2013
Flores D A, Minichiello Y, Araujo F R, Shkap V, Benítez D, Echaide I, Rolls P, Mosqueda J, Pacheco G M, Petterson M, Florin-Christensen M, Schnittger L
Abstract excerpt
Babesia bovis is a tick-transmitted haemoprotozoan and a causative agent of bovine babesiosis, a cattle disease that causes significant economic loss in tropical and subtropical regions. A panel of nineteen micro- and minisatellite markers was used to estimate population genetic parameters of eighteen parasite isolates originating from different continents, countries and geographic regions including North America...
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