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PARASITOLOGY RESEARCH
Volume 86, Issue 8, Pages 642-646Publisher
SPRINGER-VERLAG
DOI: 10.1007/PL00008545
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For resolution of the controversial taxonomic status of Babesia microti in relation to other Babesia and Theileria spp. a phylogenetic analysis of an American and a German B. microti strain was performed on the basis of sequences of the small-sub-unit rRNA gene (rDNA) using distance-matrix, maximum-parsimony, and maximum-likelihood algorithms. Both B. microti isolates clearly separated from a group containing other Babesia spp. as well as from a second group consisting of Theileria spp. Interestingly, the B. microti isolates clustered in a monophyletic group together with other piroplasm species of unclear taxonomic status, B. rodhaini, and a recently described small canine piroplasm species. These results support the existence of a third taxonomic entity of equal rank besides the Babesiidae and Theileriidae.
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