| babesia spp. identified by pcr in ticks collected from domestic and wild ruminants in southern switzerland. | concurrent infections with vector-borne pathogens affected a cattle herd in switzerland, and one of the pathogens was identified as babesia bigemina, which had never been observed in this country before. therefore, a survey of the occurrence of ruminant babesia spp. and their tick vectors in switzerland was conducted. a total of 2,017 ticks were collected from sheep, goats, cattle, and wild ruminants (deer, roe deer, and chamois) in southern parts of switzerland and identified morphologically. t ... | 2006 | 17021198 |
| molecular detection and characterization of piroplasms infecting cervids and chamois in northern spain. | wildlife can act as reservoir of different tick-borne pathogens of veterinary and zoonotic importance. to investigate the role of wild ruminants as reservoir of piroplasm infection, 28 red deer, 69 roe deer and 38 chamois from northern spain were examined by reverse line blot (rlb) hybridization. the survey detected a prevalence of 85.7% in red deer, 62.3% in roe deer and 28.9% in chamois. four different piroplasms were identified: theileria sp. ot3 (previously described in sheep) as the most pr ... | 2007 | 17076924 |
| babesiosis in free-ranging chamois (rupicapra r. rupicapra) from switzerland. | pathological examination of five adult chamois (rupicapra r. rupicapra) found dead in two different regions from the swiss alps revealed pale mucous membranes and musculature, swollen spleen and haemoglobinuria. histologically, haemosiderosis in the spleen and centrilobular hepatic necrosis were the predominant findings. on blood smears, small (approximately 0.84-1.47 microm), round to pyriform, peripherally located inclusions were present in the erythrocytes. pcr followed by sequencing of dna e ... | 2007 | 17689015 |
| babesia divergens-like organisms from free-ranging chamois (rupicapra r. rupicapra) and roe deer (capreolus c. capreolus) are distinct from b. divergens of cattle origin - an epidemiological and molecular genetic investigation. | in 2005 and 2006, three adult female chamois (rupicapra r. rupicapra) were found dead with signs of acute babesial infection in the eastern swiss alps. pcr on dna extracted from blood or spleen of the carcasses revealed sequence identity of the amplified part of the 18s rrna gene with genbank entries attributed to babesia divergens of cattle origin or b. capreoli of wild ruminant origin which have never been described before in this region. examination of 424 blood samples from 314 head of cattl ... | 2008 | 18400402 |