| [detection of natural foci of babesiosis and granulocytic ehrlichiosis in russia]. | the use of microscopy, infection of golden hamsters and the polymerase chain reaction made it possible to find out that about 30% of common red-backed voles (clethrionomys glareolus), inhabiting the taiga forests of the southern part of the western urals (the chusovskoi district of the perm region), were infected with babesia microti and simultaneously (a third of them) with ehrlichia (cytoecetes) phagocytophila, the causative agent of granulocytic ehrlichiosis. the sequencing of 18s rdna of str ... | 2002 | 12506622 |