| detection of babesia divergens using molecular methods in anemic patients in shandong province, china. | babesiosis (piroplasmosis) is a zoonotic disease caused by an intraerythrocytic protozoan transmitted by ixodes ticks. the aim of this study was to detect babesia spp. infection using molecular methods in 377 blood samples from anemic patients. sequence analysis showed that the 18s rrna gene was 439 bases long by polymerase chain reaction (pcr) amplification and that the pcr products from the samples had an identical sequence (named taian china, hm355854). blast search showed that the sequence w ... | 2011 | 21503639 |