Identification of a new type of Babesia species in wild rats (Bandicota indica) in Chiang Mai Province, Thailand.

ABSTRACT: A new type of rodent babesia, which resembled Babesia microti but was phylogenetically placed closest, with the highest level of statistical support, to Babesia canis, a canine babesia, was identified in Thai Bandicota indica in Thai provinces to which malaria is endemic. Close watch should be kept on human babesiosis in Thailand.

SUBMITTER: Dantrakool A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC344436 | biostudies-literature | 2004 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature