Detection of natural infection of Boophilus microplus with babesia equi and babesia caballi in Brazilian horses using nested polymerase chain reaction

• Main Authors: Battsetseg, Badgar, Lucero, Susana, Xuan, Xuenan, Claveria, Florencia G., Inoue, Noboru, Alhassan, Andy, Kanno, Tsutomo, Igarashi, Ikuo, Nagasawa, Hideyuki, Mikami, Takeshi, Fujisaki, Kozo
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2002
• Subjects: Boophilus microplus; Babesiosis in horses; Polymerase chain reaction; Biology
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/2357; https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/context/faculty_research/article/3356/type/native/viewcontent
• Institution: De La Salle University

The potential role of Boophilus microplus as a natural tick vector of Babesia equi and Babesia caballi in Brazilian horses was assessed using nested polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-based marker assay. B. equi merozoite-specific 218 bp gene fragment was detected in almost 96% of horse blood samples,...