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ArticleTropical parasitology

Morphology, epidemiology, and phylogeny of Babesia: An overview.

Ramgopal Laha, M Das, A Sen

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Article in Tropical parasitology. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 27 papers.

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27citing papers in PubMed
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

27 citing papers in PubMed, 56 citations in OpenAlex.

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  8. A review of Babesiosis caused by Babesia ovis in small ruminants.Tropical animal health and production · 2025
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  15. Babesiosis and Theileriosis in North America.Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022
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  19. Validation of a multiplex PCR assay to detectJournal of veterinary diagnostic investigation : official publication of the American Association of Veterinary Laboratory Diagnosticians, Inc · 2021
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Ramgopal LahaDivision of Animal Health, ICAR Research Complex for NEH Region, Meghalaya, India.
M DasDivision of Animal Health, ICAR Research Complex for NEH Region, Meghalaya, India.
A SenDivision of Animal Health, ICAR Research Complex for NEH Region, Meghalaya, India.
ICAR Research Complex for NEH Region · IN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Babesiosis is a tick-borne hemoprotozoan disease of domestic and wild animals. The disease is caused by various species of Babesia and some species of Babesia have also zoonotic significance. The parasite in vertebrate hosts' remains in erythrocytes and the morphology of Babesia spp. is not uniform in all vertebrate hosts. With the advancement of science, particularly the use of molecular techniques made it easy to study the evolution of parasites and thereby reclassifying Babesia spp. as per their phylogeny and to establish the relation of one isolate of Babesia spp. with isolates throughout the world. An attempt also made in this communication to enlighten the readers regarding relationship of one isolate of Babesia spp. of a particular area to another isolate of Babesia spp. of that area or other parts of the world and phylogenetic classification of Babesia spp. was also discussed. It has been concluded that as the study on Babesia is complex in nature so monitoring of the infection with the use of modern techniques is very much needed to control the infection. Second, more research work on phylogenetic relationship of Babesia spp. isolated from different hosts is needed, particularly in India to know the evolution of Babesia spp. of a particular area, as it has great importance to study the trans boundary diseases of animals.

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Babesiamorphologyphylogeny

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PMCPMC4557164
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