Browsing by Author "Holman, Patricia"
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James, Allison Melissa (Texas A&M University, 2006-10-30)Babesia species have a worldwide distribution, affecting a wide range of mammalian hosts. The major route of transmission is inoculation by an infected Ixodid tick. Babesia species of major economic concern are those that ...
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Carroll, Juliette E. (2011-02-22)Babesiosis is caused by a genus of tick-transmitted apicomplexan parasites with considerable economic, medical, and veterinary impact. Bovine babesiosis is an important impediment to livestock production throughout the ...
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Lehtinen, Lauren Elyse (2009-05-15)Canine babesiosis is an important worldwide disease caused by protozoan hemoparasites of the genus Babesia, which are primarily transmitted to a dog by the bite of an Ixodid tick, although vertical transmission has recently ...
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Genetic and Phylogenetic Studies of Toll-Like Receptor 5 (TLR5) in River Buffalo (Bubalus Bubalis) Jones, Brittany (2012-08-21)River buffalo are economically important to many countries and only recently has their genome been explored for the purpose of mapping genetic variation in traits of economic and biologic interest. The purpose of this ...
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Zamoto-Niikura, Aya; Morikawa, Shigeru; Hanaki, Ken-Ichi; Holman, Patricia; Ishihara, Chiaki (Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 2016)
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Pollard, Dana Alicia (2017-01-19)The hemoparasite Cytauxzoon felis causes cytauxzoonosis, an emerging infectious disease of cats in the United States. Its life cycle involves sexual reproduction in the tick vector and asexual reproduction (schizogonous ...
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Bendele, Kylie Gayle (Texas A&M University, 2005-11-01)The molecular characterization of twenty six Theileria spp. isolates and one C. felis isolate were done on the small subunit ribosomal RNA (SSU rRNA) gene, the 5.8S gene, and the two internal transcribed spacer regions ...
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Garretson, Pamela Donn (2009-05-15)The gastrointestinal parasite, Haemonchus contortus, is of major concern in the sheep and goat industry as well as in zoological settings. Over the years this parasite has developed resistance to the three classes of ...