Survey of rodents and ticks in human babesiosis emergence area in Japan: first detection of Babesia microti-like parasites in Ixodes ovatus.
Babesia microti-like parasites were detected for the first time in Ixodes ovatus in Hyogo Prefecture, Japan, where two reported types of B. microti-like parasites were recognized in many rodents. Of 80 adult I. ovatus ticks collected, 5 possessed the reported type and 1 possessed a new type of B. microti-like parasite.
Saito-Ito
Atsuko
A
Section of Parasitology, Department of Genome Sciences, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe 650-0017, Japan. atsuko@med.kpobe-u.ac.jp
Yano
Yasuhiro
Y
Dantrakool
Anchalee
A
Hashimoto
Tetsuo
T
Takada
Nobuhiro
N
D000818:Animals; D041001:Babesia microti / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D001404:Babesiosis / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000469:parasitology / Q000635:transmission; D001483:Base Sequence; D017931:DNA Primers / Q000235:genetics; D016054:DNA, Protozoan / Q000235:genetics; D006801:Humans; D018884:Ixodes / Q000469:parasitology*; D007564:Japan / Q000453:epidemiology; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009115:Muridae / Q000469:parasitology; D010802:Phylogeny; D012788:Shrews / Q000469:parasitology; D015047:Zoonoses / Q000382:microbiology
D017931:DNA Primers; D016054:DNA, Protozoan