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SUBMITTER: Alanazi AD
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6505846 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Alanazi Abdullah D AD Puschendorf Robert R Salim Bashir B Alyousif Mohamed S MS Alanazi Ibrahim O IO Al-Shehri Hajri R HR
Journal of veterinary diagnostic investigation : official publication of the American Association of Veterinary Laboratory Diagnosticians, Inc 20180911 6
We conducted a cross-sectional study to detect trypanosome infections of horses and donkeys in the Riyadh Province of Saudi Arabia. DNA was extracted from blood samples collected from 368 horses and 142 donkeys, and subjected to universal first ribosomal internal transcribed spacer region (ITS1)-PCR followed by Trypanosoma evansi species-specific RoTat1.2-PCR. The universal ITS1-PCR revealed T. evansi infection in horses ( n = 12; 3.3%) and donkeys ( n = 4; 2.8%). There was no significant effect ...[more]