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SUBMITTER: Persing DH
PROVIDER: S-EPMC265450 | biostudies-other | 1992 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Persing D H DH Mathiesen D D Marshall W F WF Telford S R SR Spielman A A Thomford J W JW Conrad P A PA
Journal of clinical microbiology 19920801 8
Human babesiosis, which is caused by infection with the intraerythrocytic malarialike protozoan Babesia microti, has recently been diagnosed with increasing frequency in residents of New England. Diagnosis is difficult because of the small size of the parasite and the sparse parasitemia that is characteristic of most infections with this pathogen. We generated B. microti-specific DNA sequence information by universal primer amplification of a portion of the eukaryotic 16S-like gene; this was fol ...[more]