Canine babesiosis in South Africa: More than one disease. Does this serve as a model for falciparum malaria?

Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology

Volumn 92, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 503-511

  Reyers, F ^a   Leisewitz, A L ^a   Lobetti, R G ^a   Milner, R J ^a   Jacobson, L S ^a   Van Zyl, M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^b Cape Animal Medical Centre   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CREATININE; UREA;

ACID BASE BALANCE; AGE; ANEMIA; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL MODEL; BABESIOSIS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASE; CONFERENCE PAPER; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOG; ELECTROLYTE DISTURBANCE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; HEMOLYTIC ANEMIA; INFLAMMATION; LEUKOCYTE; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LEUKOPENIA; LIVER DISEASE; LYMPHOCYTOPENIA; LYMPHOCYTOSIS; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MONOCYTOSIS; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; NONHUMAN; PATHOLOGY; POLYCYTHEMIA; SOUTH AFRICA; UREA BLOOD LEVEL; UREMIA;

EID: 0031837243     PISSN: 00034983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00034983.1998.11813308     Document Type: Conference Paper

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