Maria Stefanía Latrofa

Detection and differentiation of Babesia banethi and Babesia vulpes in foxes and potential tick vectors by a duplex real-time PCR assay

The increasing interactions among wildlife, domestic animals, vectors, and humans are reshaping the epidemiology of vector-borne diseases, including babesiosis. Among piroplasmids infecting wild canids, Babesia vulpes is widely distributed in red foxes, whereas many scientific as...