High prevalence of Babesia microti in small mammals in Beijing

• Main Authors: Chun-Yan Wei (Author), Xiao-Mei Wang (Author), Zhen-Sheng Wang (Author), Zhi-Hua Wang (Author), Zeng-Zhi Guan (Author), Lian-Hui Zhang (Author), Xiang-Feng Dou (Author), Heng Wang (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2020-11-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Babesiosis is an emerging tick-borne zoonotic infectious disease. Babesia microti is responsible for most cases of human babesiosis globally. It is important to investigate the prevalence of B. microti in the mammalian host population of a specific region in order to elucidate me...