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Analysis of Theileria orientalis draft genome sequences reveals potential species-level divergence of the Ikeda, Chitose and Buffeli genotypes.
BMC genomics - 27 Apr 2018
Bogema Daniel R, Micallef Melinda L, Liu Michael, Padula Matthew P, Djordjevic Steven P, Darling Aaron E, Jenkins Cheryl
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BACKGROUND: Theileria orientalis (Apicomplexa: Piroplasmida) has caused clinical disease in cattle of Eastern Asia for many years and its recent rapid spread throughout Australian and New Zealand herds has caused substantial economic losses to production through cattle deaths, late term abortion and morbidity. Disease outbreaks have been linked to the detection of a pathogenic genotype of T. orientalis, genotype...
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