Babesia gibsoni internal transcribed spacer 1 region is highly conserved amongst isolates from dogs across Japan

• Published in: Journal of Veterinary Medical Science Vol. 78; no. 5; pp. 863 - 865
• Main Authors: LIU, Mingming, CAO, Shinuo, VUDRIKO, Patrick, SUZUKI, Hiroshi, SOMA, Takehisa, XUAN, Xuenan
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Japan JAPANESE SOCIETY OF VETERINARY SCIENCE 01.01.2016; Japanese Society of Veterinary Science; Japan Science and Technology Agency; The Japanese Society of Veterinary Science
• Subjects: Animals; Babesia - genetics; Babesia gibsoni; Babesiosis - epidemiology; Babesiosis - parasitology; conserved gene; Conserved Sequence - genetics; DNA, Intergenic - genetics; Dog Diseases - epidemiology; Dog Diseases - parasitology; Dogs; Genetic Markers - genetics; internal transcribed spacer 1 (ITS1); Japan; Japan - epidemiology; Parasitology; Phylogeny

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 Japa...