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First report of Babesia divergens in Tunisia
1Institut Pasteur de Tunis, Laboratoire d'Entomologie Médicale, Tunisie.
Veterinary Parasitology
|May 1, 1996
Abstract:
Babesia divergens of bovine origin was isolated, for the first time in Tunisia, from a cow of a local breed (Bos taurus) from a locality in the north-west of the country. Gerbils (Meriones unguiculatus) were used for the isolation of the parasite which was inoculated into a splenectomised Friesian calf that developed a babesiosis, thus confirming the presence of the parasite.