Detection of Babesia hongkongensis sp. nov. in a free-roaming felis catus cat in Hong Kong

Samson S.Y. Wong; Rosana W.S. Poon; Janet J.Y. Hui; Kwok Yung Yuen

doi:10.1128/JCM.01300-12

Detection of Babesia hongkongensis sp. nov. in a free-roaming felis catus cat in Hong Kong

Samson S.Y. Wong, Rosana W.S. Poon, Janet J.Y. Hui, Kwok Yung Yuen

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Intraerythrocytic Babesia-like trophozoites were seen in postmortem kidney sections of a free-roaming cat in Hong Kong. DNA sequences of the 18S rRNA and mitochondrial cytochrome b genes had only 96.7% and 90.4% nucleotide identity with known Babesia sequences. We propose that this new species be named Babesia hongkongensis.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	2799-2803
Number of pages	5
Journal	Journal of Clinical Microbiology
Volume	50
Issue number	8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1128/JCM.01300-12
Publication status	Published - Aug 2012
Externally published	Yes

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Detection of Babesia hongkongensis sp. nov. in a free-roaming felis catus cat in Hong Kong

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