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Nilgai Antelope In Northern Mexico As A Possible Carrier For Cattle Fever Ticks And Babesia Bovis And Babesia Bigemina.
United States Department of Agriculture Wildlife Services: Staff Publications
  • E M Cardenas-Canales, Texas A&M University–Kingsville, Caesar Kleberg Wildlife Research Institute
  • J. Alfonso Ortega-Santos
  • Tyler A. Campbell, USDA-APHIS-Wildlife Services, National Wildlife Research Center
  • Zeferino Garcia-Vaquez, Centro Nacional de Investigacio´n Disciplinaria en Parasitologı´a Veterinaria (CENID PAVET), INIFAP, Jiutepec, MorelosC.P. 62550, Mexico
  • Antonio Cantu-Covarrubias, Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Forestales, Agrı´colas y Pecuarias, Sitio Experimental
  • Julio V. Figueroa-Millian, Centro Nacional de Investigacio´n Disciplinaria en Parasitologı´a Veterinaria (CENID PAVET), INIFAP, Jiutepec, MorelosC.P. 62550, Mexico
  • Randy W. DeYoung, Texas A&M University–Kingsville, Caesar Kleberg Wildlife Research Institute
  • David G. Hewitt, Texas A&M University–Kingsville, Caesar Kleberg Wildlife Research Institute
  • Fred C. Bryant, Texas A&M University–Kingsville, Caesar Kleberg Wildlife Research Institute
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Date of this Version
1-1-2011
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Published in Journal of Wildlife Diseases (2011) 47:777-779.

Abstract

Of 20 blood samples from nilgais from Me´ xico, five were polymerase chain reaction-positive for Babesia bigemina and one for Babesia bovis. Positive samples had the expected 170 (B. bigemina) and 291 (B. bovis) base pairs and were identical to Gen-Bank B. bigemina accession S45366 and B. bovis M38218.

Citation Information
E M Cardenas-Canales, J. Alfonso Ortega-Santos, Tyler A. Campbell, Zeferino Garcia-Vaquez, et al.. "Nilgai Antelope In Northern Mexico As A Possible Carrier For Cattle Fever Ticks And Babesia Bovis And Babesia Bigemina." (2011)
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