Babesia caballi strain:Puerto Rico Genome sequencing. Babesia caballi strain:Puerto Rico

Babesia caballi is a tick-transmitted intraerythrocytic protozoan that infects equines. This disease causes significant economic impact in the equine industry, since the movement of infected animals to areas considered free of equine piroplasmosis is restrict. Genome sequencing of this protozoan will allow further studies towards vaccine development, improvement of diagnostic methods, functional studies,etc.