2002/10/01 by CJ MUHLNICKEL, R JEFFERIES, UM MORGAN‐RYAN +2 · 1 citation
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Immunology and Microbiology · Medicine · #Vector-Borne Animal Diseases #Vector-borne infectious diseases #Viral Infections and Vectors
paper · doi:10.1111/j.1751-0813.2002.tb10961.x
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Small intraerythrocytic parasites were observed in the blood of three related male American Pit Bull Terriers. Two of the dogs, both less than 1-year-old, were anaemic at the time of initial examination and the third, an adult and sire of the two younger dogs, had a normal haemogram and low parasitaemia. The morphological appearance of the erythrocyte inclusions, analysis of a 450-bp region of the 18S rRNA gene and antibody titres provided evidence that this parasite was Babesia gibsoni, a species not previously reported in Australia.