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- Title
Phylogenetic and Biologic Evidence That Babesia divergens Is Not Endemic in the United States.
- Authors
HOLMAN, PATRICIA J.
- Abstract
The causative agent of human babesiosis in a Kentucky case, which was first identified as Babesia divergens , is identical to a parasite of eastern cottontail rabbits on Nantucket Island, Massachusetts based on piroplasm size, morphology, and ribosomal RNA sequence analysis. Studies showing differential infectivity for cattle, host erythrocyte specificity in vitro , parasite size and morphology in vitro , and ribosomal RNA sequences clearly demonstrate that the parasite from the rabbit (conspecific with the human Kentucky agent) is not the same organism as B. divergens.
- Subjects
UNITED States; BABESIA; BABESIOSIS; NUCLEOTIDE sequence; COTTONTAILS; PARASITES
- Publication
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 2006, Vol 1081, Issue 1, p518
- ISSN
0077-8923
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1196/annals.1373.077