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Investigation of the piroplasm diversity circulating in wildlife and cattle of the greater Kafue ecosystem, Zambia
30 Nov 2020
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BACKGROUND: Piroplasms are vector-borne intracellular hemoprotozoan parasites that infect wildlife and livestock. Wildlife species are reservoir hosts to a diversity of piroplasms and play an important role in the circulation, maintenance and evolution of these parasites. The potential for likely spillover of both pathogenic and non-pathogenic piroplasm parasites from wildlife to livestock is underlined when a...
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