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SUBMITTER: Liu M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4905845 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
The Journal of veterinary medical science 20160122 5
Babesia gibsoni is a tick-borne apicomplexan parasite of dogs that often causes fever and hemolytic anemia with highly variable clinical outcome. In this study, we sequenced the 254bp Internal Transcribed Spacer 1 region (ITS1) of 54 B. gibsoni isolates from 14 different geographical regions of Japan. The 54 isolates shared high sequence identity with each other and with B. gibsoni isolates reported in GenBank database (97.2-100%). Consistent with previous reports, phylogenetic analysis showed t ...[more]