The inability of a South African Babesia bovis vaccine strain to infect Boophilus microplus

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Mason, T.E.
Potgieter, F.T.
Van Rensburg, L.

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A strain of Babesia bovis that had been attenuated by rapid syringe passage through a series of 23 splenectomized calves was unable to infect its vector Boophilus microplus. An attempt to transmit the attenuated Australian Babesia bigemina G strain with a South African strain of B. microplus was likewise unsuccessful. The epidemiological implication of these observations in terms of babesiosis control is discussed.

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Veterinary medicine

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Mason, TE, Potgieter, FT & Van Rensburg, L 1986, 'The inability of a South African Babesia bovis vaccine strain to infect Boophilus microplus’, Onderstepoort Journal of Veterinary Research, vol. 53, no. 3, pp. 143-145.