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Molecular identification of badger-associated Babesia sp. DNA in dogs: updated phylogeny of piroplasms infecting Caniformia.
Parasites & vectors - 11 Apr 2018
Hornok Sándor, Horváth Gábor, Takács Nóra, Kontschán Jenő, Szőke Krisztina, Farkas Róbert
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Piroplasms are unicellular, tick-borne parasites. Among them, during the past decade, an increasing diversity of Babesia spp. has been reported from wild carnivores. On the other hand, despite the known contact of domestic and wild carnivores (e.g. during hunting), and a number of ixodid tick species they share, data on the infection of dogs with babesiae from other families of carnivores are rare....
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