B30 Dynamics of intraerythrocytic Babesia microti during tick feeding
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Babesia microti, Upstate New York
Five cases of human babesiosis were reported in the Lower Hudson Valley Region of New York State in 2001. An investigation to determine if Babesia microti was present in local Ixodes scapularis ticks yielded 5 positive pools in 123 pools tested, the first detection of B. microti from field-collected I. scapularis in upstate New York.
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عنوان ژورنال: Medical Entomology and Zoology
سال: 2002
ISSN: 0424-7086,2185-5609
DOI: 10.7601/mez.53.63_3