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Published on: January 3, 2011
Babesia sp. in Colombian bats (Microchiroptera)
1Centro de Investigaciones en Microbiología y Parasitología Tropical, Universidad de los Andes, Santafé de Bogotá, Colombia.
Journal of Wildlife Diseases
|July 1, 1996
Abstract:
Two leaf-chinned bats (Mormoops megalophylla) collected in 1963 in central Colombia were heavily infected with Babesia sp., probably Babesia vesperuginis. Both bats had pronounced splenomegaly. This is the first report of a Babesia sp. infection of a bat in the Americas.

