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SUBMITTER: Wang X
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7108381 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Parasitology international 20180323 4
Neospora caninum is an intracellular protozoan that infects many domestic and wild animals. Domestic dogs and other canids function as definitive hosts, while other mammals serve as natural intermediate hosts. In the present study, the brain tissues of bats collected in Yunnan Province, Southern China were tested by N. caninum specific-nested PCR, targeting the Nc-5 gene and the internal transcribed spacer 1 (ITS1) region of the ribosomal DNA to determine whether bats could be infected with N. c ...[more]