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Tuvshintulga, B.; Battsetseg, B.; Battur, B.; Myagmarsuren, P.; Narantsatsral, S.; Sivakumar, T.; Takemae, H.; Igarashi, I.; Inoue, N.; Yokoyama, N.; 五十嵐, 郁男; 井上, 昇; 横山, 直明. |
Babesia venatorum, formerly known as Babesia sp. EU1, is a zoonotic hemoprotozoan parasites that commonly infects deer. In the present study, we investigated B. venatorum infection in Ixodes persulcatus, an important tick vector capable of transmitting several tick-borne pathogens that cause babesiosis, encephalitis, tularemia, and Lyme diseases. DNA samples extracted from questing I. persulcatus ticks (n=63) that had been collected in Selenge province of Mongolia in 2012 and 2013 were screened for B. venatorum using a nested PCR assay. The findings showed that two of 63 DNA samples were positive for B. venatorum. The 18S rRNA sequences amplified from B. venatorum-positive DNA samples shared high identity scores (96.1–99.9%) with known B. venatorum... |
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Palavras-chave: Babesia venatorum; 18S rRNA; Ixodes persulcatus; Mongolia. |
Ano: 2015 |
URL: http://ir.obihiro.ac.jp/dspace/handle/10322/4243 |
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