PCR-based Detection of Babesia spp. Infection in Collected Ticks from Cattle in West and North-West of Iran.

• Main Authors: Mousa Tavassoli (Author), Mohammad Tabatabaei (Author), Mosleh Mohammadi (Author), Bijan Esmaeilnejad (Author), Hemn Mohamadpour (Author)
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• Publicado em: Tehran University of Medical Sciences, 2013-12-01T00:00:00Z.
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Background: Babesiosis is a haemoparasitic disease of domestic and wild animals caused by species of the genusBabesia. Babesia bigemina, B. bovis and B. divergens are known to be pathogenic in cattle. The disease is transmit- ted during blood feeding by infected ticks and is the most economically im...