A new Hepatozoon species from dogs: Description of the causative agent of canine hepatozoonosis in north America

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 83, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1165-1172

  Vincent Johnson, Nancy A ^a   Macintire, Douglass K ^a   Lindsay, David S ^a,b   Lenz, Stephen D ^a   Baneth, Gad ^a,c   Snkap, Varda ^a,d   Blagburn, Byron L ^a  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CENTER FOR MOLECULAR MEDICINE AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^c HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^d KIMRON VETERINARY INSTITUTE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL PARASITOSIS; ARTICLE; DOG; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITE ISOLATION; PARASITE VECTOR; PROTOZOAL INFECTION; TICK;

ANIMALS; COCCIDIOSIS; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; EUCOCCIDIIDA; GRANULOMA; PROTOZOAN INFECTIONS, ANIMAL;

ACARI; ADELEINA; ANIMALIA; CANIS FAMILIARIS; HEPATOZOON; HEPATOZOON AMERICANUM; HEPATOZOON CANIS; PROTOZOA; RHIPICEPHALUS SANGUINEUS;

EID: 0031453958     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3284379     Document Type: Article

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