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Bovine babesiosis is a tick-transmitted disease caused by different species of  Babesia . The white yak is a unique yak breed that lives only in Tianzhu in the Tibetan Autonomous County, Gansu Province, in northwestern China. Previous research using the ELISA method has confirmed that the white yak could become infected with  B. bigemina . The objective of this study was the molecular detection and identification of  Babesia  species in white yaks. A total of 409 white yak blood samples were collected from 11 areas of the Tianzhu Tibetan Autonomous County in Northwest China from April to August, 2015. The V4 hypervariable region of  Babesia  18S rRNA was amplified from extracted genomic DNA using nested PCR and sequenced. The nearly full-length sequence of 18S rRNA including the V4 region from the newly discovered  Babesia  was amplified and sequenced with Sanger method. PCR detection and sequencing indicated that 4/409 samples were positive for  B. bigemina , 3/409 samples were positive for  B. bovis , and 5/409 samples were positive for  B. ovata.  Additionally, a new  Babesia  species was found in 4/409 white yaks. A unique sequence of 1,627 bp was obtained from two of the four samples. The sequence was similar to  Babesia  species Akita (98.5%) found in  Ixodes ovatus  and  B. venatorum  (98%) and shared a 98% identity with  B. divergens  and a 98.1% identity with  B. odocoilei . This study provides new data about  Babesia  infections in white yaks in northwestern China, and a new  Babesia  species similar to  B. venatorum  was identified in white yaks for the first time.

A Molecular Survey of Babesia Species and Detection of a New Babesia Species by DNA Related to B. venatorum from White Yaks in Tianzhu, China