Publications

babesia vesperuginis: natural and experimental infections in british bats (microchiroptera).	babesia vesperuginis is described from blood of two species of british bat: pipistrellus pipistrellus and myotis mystacinus. reticulocytes appeared significantly elevated in blood films of p. pipistrellus infected with b. vesperuginis compared with uninfected laboratory-maintained bats or apparently uninfected wild-caught bats. infected captive bats had significantly enlarged spleens. b. vesperuginis was transmitted by inoculation of infected blood to 5 uninfected captive p. pipistrellus. the co ...	1987	3696774
babesia sp. in colombian bats (microchiroptera).	two leaf-chinned bats (mormoops megalophylla) collected in 1963 in central colombia were heavily infected with babesia sp., probably babesia vesperuginis. both bats had pronounced splenomegaly. this is the first report of a babesia sp. infection of a bat in the americas.	1996	8827683
molecular characterization of haemoparasites infecting bats (microchiroptera) in cornwall, uk.	the presence of haemoparasites from the order piroplasmida and the genera bartonella and trypanosoma was assessed in the blood of 60 bats, belonging to 7 species, inhabiting sites across cornwall in southwest england. dna extracted from macerated heart tissue was incorporated into taxon-specific polymerase chain reactions (pcrs) and amplification products were sequenced as a means of identifying, or assigning an identity, to detected haemoparasites. a piroplasmida species was detected in 6 pipis ...	2005	16174413
dna of piroplasms of ruminants and dogs in ixodid bat ticks.	in this study 308 ticks (ixodes ariadnae: 26 larvae, 14 nymphs, five females; i. vespertilionis: 89 larvae, 27 nymphs, eight females; i. simplex: 80 larvae, 50 nymphs, nine females) have been collected from 200 individuals of 17 bat species in two countries, hungary and romania. after dna extraction these ticks were molecularly analysed for the presence of piroplasm dna. in hungary i. ariadnae was most frequently identified from bat species in the family vespertilionidae, whereas i. vespertilion ...	2016	27930692
molecular investigations of the bat tick argas vespertilionis (ixodida: argasidae) and babesia vesperuginis (apicomplexa: piroplasmida) reflect "bat connection" between central europe and central asia.	argas vespertilionis is a geographically widespread haematophagous ectoparasite species of bats in the old world, with a suspected role in the transmission of babesia vesperuginis. the aims of the present study were (1) to molecularly screen a. vespertilionis larvae (collected in europe, africa and asia) for the presence of piroplasms, and (2) to analyze mitochondrial markers of a. vespertilionis larvae from central asia (xinjiang province, northwestern china) in a phylogeographical context. out ...	2017	28536802