Cervids as Babesiae hosts, Slovenia.
We describe cervids as potential reservoir hosts of Babesia EU1 and B. divergens. Both babesial parasites were found in roe deer. Sequence analysis of 18S rRNA showed 99.7% identity of roe deer Babesia EU1 with the human EU1 strain. B. divergens detected in cervids was 99.6% identical to bovine B. divergens.
Duh
Darja
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Institute of Microbiology and Immunology, Medical Faculty, Ljubljana, Slovenia. darja.duh@mf.uni-lj.si
Petrovec
Miroslav
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Bidovec
Andrej
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Avsic-Zupanc
Tatjana
T
D000818:Animals; D001403:Babesia / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D001404:Babesiosis / Q000453:epidemiology; D003670:Deer / Q000469:parasitology*; D004197:Disease Reservoirs; D010802:Phylogeny; D017524:Slovenia / Q000453:epidemiology