We harvested 21 fallow deer (Dama dama) and 17 axis deer (Axis axis) in northern Mexico. Two fallow deer were positive for Babesia bigemina and one for Babesia bovis. Amplicons had the expected 170 and 291 base pairs and were identical to B. bigemina (S45366) and B. bovis (M38218), respectively.
Garcia-Vazquez, Z., J.A. Ortega-S., A. Cantu-Covarruvias, J. Mosquesda, D.G. Hewitt, R.W. DeYoung, T.A. Campbell, and F.C. Bryant. 2015. Tick borne diseases in sympatric population of fallow deer and axis deer in northern Mexico. Journal of Wildlife Diseases 51:527–529.
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