Species Babesia rodhaini van den Berghe, Vincke, Chardome & van den Bulcke, 1950

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• Babesia rodhaini van den Berghe. L., Vincke. I. H., Chardome, M. & van den Bulcke, M. 1950. Babesia rodhaini n. sp. d'un rongeur du Congo belge transmissible a la souris blanche. Annales de la Société Belge de Médecine Tropicale 30: 83-86.

Distribution

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Parasitic (host(s): Rattus norvegicus (Berkenhout, 1769) [MURIDAE] Brown Rat (syn. Rattus decumanus Pallus, 1778, Mus decumanus; blood (exptl. infection)); Mus musculus Linnaeus, 1758 [MURIDAE] House Mouse (syn. M. domesticus; blood (exptl. infection))).

Associated Fauna References

Dalgliesh, R.J. 1972. Theoretical and practical aspects of freezing parasitic protozoa. Australian Veterinary Journal 48: 233-239 (Mus musculus)

Dalrymple, B.P., Dimmock, C.M., Parrodi, F. & Wright, I.G. 1992. Babesia bovis, Babesia bigemina, Babesia canis, Babesia microti and Babesia rodhaini: comparison of ribosomal RNA gene organization. International Journal for Parasitology 22: 851-855 (Mus musculus)

Ellis, J., Hefford, C., Baverstock, P.R., Dalrymple, B.P. & Johnson, A.M. 1992. Ribosomal DNA sequence comparison of Babesia and Theileria. Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology 54: 87-96 (Mus musculus)

Knopf, P.M., Brown, G.V., Howard, R.J. & Mitchell, G.F. 1979. Immunoprecipitation of biosynthetically-labelled products in the identification of antigens of murine red cells infected with the protozoan parasite, Plasmodium berghei. Australian Journal of Experimantal Biology and Medical Science 57: 603-615 (Mus musculus)

Ludford, C.G. 1969. Fluorescent antibody staining of four Babesia species. Experimental Parasitology 24: 327-335 (Rattus norvegicus; Mus musculus)

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