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. 2005 Jul;11(7):1121-3.
doi: 10.3201/eid1107.040724.

Cervids as Babesiae hosts, Slovenia

Darja Duh  1 , Miroslav Petrovec, Andrej Bidovec, Tatjana Avsic-Zupanc
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Cervids as Babesiae hosts, Slovenia

Darja Duh et al. Emerg Infect Dis. 2005 Jul.

Abstract

We describe cervids as potential reservoir hosts of Babesia EU1 and B. divergens. Both babesial parasites were found in roe deer. Sequence analysis of 18S rRNA showed 99.7% identity of roe deer Babesia EU1 with the human EU1 strain. B. divergens detected in cervids was 99.6% identical to bovine B. divergens.

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Phylogenetic relationships of representative babesiae deposited in GenBank and detected in this study, inferred from multiple sequence alignment of complete 18S rRNA gene. Accession numbers of babesiae: Babesia EU1 from Ixodes ricinus ticks, AY553915; babesiae from roe deer 1, AY572457; babesiae from roe deer 2, AY572456; Babesia EU1 from human, AY046575; B. divergens, AY046576; B. odocoilei, AY046577; Babesia MO1, AY048113; B. caballi, Z15104; and Theileria annulata, M64243. The number on each branch shows the percent occurrence in 1,000 bootstrap replicates.
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