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Phylogenetic Relationship of Babesia Species Infecting Dogs from Select Regions in Kenya
2020-10-26
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<h4>Background: </h4> There are over 100 Babesia species known to infect vertebrates with some of them being zoonotic. Local dog keeping practices enable extensive and intimate interactions between dogs, livestock, wildlife, and their human owners, thus allowing the possibility of dogs to act as hosts for zoonotic parasites.Canine babesiosis, known to occur in Kenya causes a severe and debilitating illness in dogs...
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- Literature Corpus work
- e56ee195-b86b-59f4-88a3-bed59e4628ab
- DOI
- 10.21203/rs.3.rs-93407/v1
