Description of a Giardia varani-like Flagellate from a water monitor, Varanus salvator, from Malaysia

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 83, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 970-971

  Upton, Steve J ^a   Zien, Christopher A ^a  

^a KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FLAGELLATE; GIARDIA; MALAYSIA; NONHUMAN; OOCYST; REPTILE; TROPHOZOITE;

ANIMALS; FECES; FEMALE; GIARDIA; GIARDIASIS; LIZARDS; MALAYSIA;

GIARDIA; GIARDIA INTESTINALIS; GIARDIA VARANI; MASTIGOPHORA (FLAGELLATES); REPTILIA; VARANUS SALVATOR;

EID: 0030778589     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3284303     Document Type: Article

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