Atoxoplasma (Apicomplexa: Eimeriorina: Atoxoplasmatidae) in the greenfinch (Carduelis chloris)

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 84, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 813-817

  Ball, S J ^a   Brown, M A ^a   Daszak, P ^a,b   Pittilo, R M ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b KINGSTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PARASITE INFESTATION; PASSERINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APICOMPLEXA; ARTICLE; BIRD; CELL VACUOLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; EIMERIA; INTESTINE EPITHELIUM CELL; INTESTINE PARASITE; LEUKOCYTE; MEROZOITE; NONHUMAN; OOCYST; PARASITOSIS; SMALL INTESTINE;

ANIMALS; BIRD DISEASES; BIRDS; CARRIER STATE; COCCIDIA; COCCIDIOSIS; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; FECES; INTESTINES; KIDNEY; LEUKOCYTES, MONONUCLEAR; LUNG; LYMPHOCYTES; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON;

EID: 0031847430     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3284593     Document Type: Article

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