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THE importance of immunological differences between strains in the epidemiology of human malaria is well known1. A disease comparable in some respects with malaria is bovine babesiosis. It is transmitted by a tick, and the protozoan parasites which cause the disease invade the red blood cell.
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CALLOW, L. Strain Immunity in Babesiosis. Nature 204, 1213–1214 (1964). https://doi.org/10.1038/2041213a0
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