Identification of a new type of Babesia species in wild rats (Bandicota indica) in Chiang Mai Province, Thailand.
A new type of rodent babesia, which resembled Babesia microti but was phylogenetically placed closest, with the highest level of statistical support, to Babesia canis, a canine babesia, was identified in Thai Bandicota indica in Thai provinces to which malaria is endemic. Close watch should be kept on human babesiosis in Thailand.
Dantrakool
Anchalee
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Department of Genome Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Kobe University, Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe 650-0017.
Somboon
Pradya
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Hashimoto
Tetsuo
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Saito-Ito
Atsuko
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D000818:Animals; D000835:Animals, Wild; D001403:Babesia / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D001404:Babesiosis / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000662:veterinary*; D001483:Base Sequence; D017931:DNA Primers; D016054:DNA, Protozoan / Q000235:genetics; D004275:DNA, Ribosomal / Q000235:genetics; D010802:Phylogeny; D016053:RNA, Protozoan / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification; D012335:RNA, Ribosomal / Q000235:genetics; D051381:Rats; D012376:Rodent Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000469:parasitology*
D017931:DNA Primers; D016054:DNA, Protozoan; D004275:DNA, Ribosomal; D016053:RNA, Protozoan; D012335:RNA, Ribosomal