Development of petide array for diagnosis fo important protozoan diseases using one drop of blood sample.

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Protozoan diseases such as babesiosis cause great economical losses to animal industry world-wide. Many amimals are imported from foreign countries to Japan every year, and it is important to prevent invasion of infected these animals to Japan at the edge of the water. Objective of the present study was to develop the serodiagnostic test that was able to diagnose protozoan diseases with one drop of the blood sample. The protein array using recombinant antigens were successfully established to detect two bovine Babesia species at the same time. By adding other protozoan antigens, novel serological diagnostics will be established for diagnosis of many protozoan diseases at a time in the future.