Identification of a New Type of <i>Babesia</i> Species in Wild Rats ( <i>Bandicota indica</i> ) in Chiang Mai Province, Thailand

Abstract

A new type of rodent babesia, which resembled Babesia microti but was phylogenetically placed closest, with the highest level of statistical support, to Babesia canis, a canine babesia, was identified in Thai Bandicota indica in Thai provinces to which malaria is endemic. Close watch should be kept on human babesiosis in Thailand.