Nilgai Antelope In Northern Mexico As A Possible Carrier For Cattle Fever Ticks And Babesia Bovis And Babesia Bigemina.

Authors

• E M. Cardenas-Canales, Texas A&M University–Kingsville, Caesar Kleberg Wildlife Research Institute
• J. Alfonso Ortega-Santos
• Tyler A. Campbell, USDA-APHIS-Wildlife Services, National Wildlife Research CenterFollow
• Zeferino Garcia-Vaquez, Centro Nacional de Investigacio´n Disciplinaria en Parasitologı´a Veterinaria (CENID PAVET), INIFAP, Jiutepec, MorelosC.P. 62550, Mexico
• Antonio Cantu-Covarrubias, Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Forestales, Agrı´colas y Pecuarias, Sitio Experimental
• Julio V. Figueroa-Millian, Centro Nacional de Investigacio´n Disciplinaria en Parasitologı´a Veterinaria (CENID PAVET), INIFAP, Jiutepec, MorelosC.P. 62550, Mexico
• Randy W. DeYoung, Texas A&M University–Kingsville, Caesar Kleberg Wildlife Research InstituteFollow
• David G. Hewitt, Texas A&M University–Kingsville, Caesar Kleberg Wildlife Research InstituteFollow
• Fred C. Bryant, Texas A&M University–Kingsville, Caesar Kleberg Wildlife Research Institute

Document Type

Article

Date of this Version

2011

Comments

Published in Journal of Wildlife Diseases (2011) 47:777-779.

Abstract

Of 20 blood samples from nilgais from Me´ xico, five were polymerase chain reaction-positive for Babesia bigemina and one for Babesia bovis. Positive samples had the expected 170 (B. bigemina) and 291 (B. bovis) base pairs and were identical to Gen-Bank B. bigemina accession S45366 and B. bovis M38218.