| detection of natural infection of boophilus microplus with babesia equi and babesia caballi in brazilian horses using nested polymerase chain reaction. | the potential role of boophilus microplus as a natural tick vector of babesia equi and babesia caballi in brazilian horses was assessed using nested polymerase chain reaction (pcr)-based marker assay. b. equi merozoite-specific 218bp gene fragment was detected in almost 96% of horse blood samples, and 45.3-62.5% of females, eggs, larvae, and nymphs of b. microplus collected from 47 horses at campo grande in the state of matto grosso, brazil. except for the partially-fed female ticks, the b. caba ... | 2002 | 12163246 |