State Key Laboratory for Emerging Infectious Diseases, Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Research Centre for Infection and Immunology, The University of Hong Kong.
J Clin Microbiol. 2012 Aug;50(8):2799-803. doi: 10.1128/JCM.01300-12. Epub 2012 May 30.
Intraerythrocytic Babesia-like trophozoites were seen in postmortem kidney sections of a free-roaming cat in Hong Kong. DNA sequences of the 18S rRNA and mitochondrial cytochrome b genes had only 96.7% and 90.4% nucleotide identity with known Babesia sequences. We propose that this new species be named Babesia hongkongensis.
在香港一只自由放养的猫的尸检肾脏切片中观察到了红细胞内似巴贝斯虫样滋养体。18S rRNA 和线粒体细胞色素 b 基因的 DNA 序列与已知的巴贝斯虫序列的核苷酸同一性分别只有 96.7%和 90.4%。我们建议将这个新物种命名为香港巴贝斯虫。