Description of a new Neospora species (Protozoa: Apicomplexa: Sarcocystidae)

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 84, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 983-991

  Marsh, Antoinette E ^a   Barr, Bradd C ^a,b   Packham, Andrea E ^a,b   Conrad, Patricia A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; RIBOSOME DNA; RIBOSOME RNA;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; HORSE; NEOSPORA; NEOSPORA CANINUM; NEOSPORA HUGHESI; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARALYSIS; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; TAXONOMY;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CATTLE; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; COCCIDIOSIS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; DOGS; FEMALE; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEOSPORA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RABBITS; RNA, PROTOZOAN; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; VERO CELLS;

ANIMALIA; APICOMPLEXA; BOVINAE; CONOIDEA; EQUIDAE; EQUUS; EQUUS CABALLUS; NEOSPORA; NEOSPORA CANINUM; NEOSPORA HUGHESI; NEOSPORA SP.; PROTOZOA; SARCOCYSTIDAE;

EID: 0031771099     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3284632     Document Type: Article

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