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Development of a pan-Babesia FRET-qPCR and a survey of livestock from five Caribbean islands

BACKGROUND: Babesia spp. are tick-borne protozoan hemoparasites and the second most common blood-borne parasites of mammals, in particular domestic animals. We used the Clustal Multiple Alignment program and 18S rRNA gene sequences of 22 Babesia species from GenBank to develop a PCR that could detec...

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Autores principales: Li, Jing, Kelly, Patrick, Zhang, Jilei, Xu, Chuanling, Wang, Chengming
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4588467/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26423577
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12917-015-0560-0