Sarcosporidiasis in rodents from Thailand

Journal of Wildlife Diseases

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 860-867

  Jäkel, Thomas ^a,b   Khoprasert, Yuvaluk ^c   Sorger, Ingeborg ^a   Kliemt, Damaris ^a   Seehabutr, Viyada ^c   Suasa ard, Kornkaew ^c   Hongnark, Sermsakdi ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

^b Financial Systems Development Section   (Germany)

^c Department of Agriculture   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Bandicota indica; Experimental transmission; Prevalence; Rattus spp.; Rodents; Sarcocyst ultrastructure; Sarcocystis spp.

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; COCCIDIOSIS; EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL; FECES; FEMALE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MURIDAE; PARASITOLOGY; RAT; RODENT DISEASE; SARCOCYSTIS; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SNAKE; THAILAND; ULTRASTRUCTURE; WILD ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, LABORATORY; ANIMALS, WILD; BOIDAE; FECES; FEMALE; MURIDAE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; RATS; RODENT DISEASES; SARCOCYSTIS; SARCOCYSTOSIS; THAILAND;

EID: 0031242358     PISSN: 00903558     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7589/0090-3558-33.4.860     Document Type: Article

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