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Journal of Clinical Microbiology, February 2004, p. 850-854, Vol. 42, No. 2
0095-1137/04/$08.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/JCM.42.2.850-854.2004
Copyright © 2004, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Identification of a New Type of Babesia Species in Wild Rats (Bandicota indica) in Chiang Mai Province, Thailand

Anchalee Dantrakool,1 Pradya Somboon,2 Tetsuo Hashimoto,3 and Atsuko Saito-Ito1*

Section of Parasitology, Department of Genome Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Kobe University, Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe 650-0017,1 Institute of Biological Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba 305-8572, Japan,3 Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai 50200, Thailand2

Received 5 March 2003/ Returned for modification 8 July 2003/ Accepted 14 October 2003

A new type of rodent babesia, which resembled Babesia microti but was phylogenetically placed closest, with the highest level of statistical support, to Babesia canis, a canine babesia, was identified in Thai Bandicota indica in Thai provinces to which malaria is endemic. Close watch should be kept on human babesiosis in Thailand.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Section of Parasitology, Department of Genome Sciences, Kobe University, Graduate School of Medicine, 7-5-1 Kusunoki-cho, chuo-ku, Kobe 650-0017, Japan. Phone: 81-78-382-5561. Fax: 81-78-382-5579. E-mail: atsuko{at}med.kobe-u.ac.jp.

Journal of Clinical Microbiology, February 2004, p. 850-854, Vol. 42, No. 2
0095-1137/04/$08.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/JCM.42.2.850-854.2004
Copyright © 2004, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.



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