Description of novel babesia species and associated lesions from common murres (uria aalge) from California

Michael J. Yabsley; Ellis Greiner; Florina S. Tseng; Michael M. Garner; Robert W. Nordhausen; Michael H. Ziccardi; Dori L. Borjesson; Shanon Zabolotzky

doi:10.1645/GE-1955.1

Description of novel babesia species and associated lesions from common murres (uria aalge) from California

Michael J. Yabsley, Ellis Greiner, Florina S. Tseng, Michael M. Garner, Robert W. Nordhausen, Michael H. Ziccardi, Dori L. Borjesson, Shanon Zabolotzky

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A novel Babesia species is described from blood collected from 3 common murres (also known as common guillemots) (Uria aalge) from California. This is the first report of a Babesia species from the Alcidae and the second from the Charadriiformes. Babesia uriae n. sp. is morphologically similar to several other avian Babesia species but can be differentiated from Babesia bennetti, the only other species from a host in the Charadriiformes, by size of round and amoeboid forms. Phylogenetic analysis of nearfull length 18S rRNA, ITS-1, 5.8S rRNA, and ITS-2 sequences indicated that the Babesia sp. from the common murre is closely related to Babesia poelea, a parasite of brown boobies (Sula leucogaster).

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	1183-1188
Number of pages	6
Journal	Journal of Parasitology
Volume	95
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1645/GE-1955.1
State	Published - Oct 2009

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Description of novel babesia species and associated lesions from common murres (uria aalge) from California. / Yabsley, Michael J.; Greiner, Ellis; Tseng, Florina S.; Garner, Michael M.; Nordhausen, Robert W.; Ziccardi, Michael H.; Borjesson, Dori L.; Zabolotzky, Shanon.

In: Journal of Parasitology, Vol. 95, No. 5, 10.2009, p. 1183-1188.

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