Acute Fulminant Sarcocystosis in a Captive-born Rhesus Macaque

Veterinary Pathology

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 499-505

  Lane, J H ^a   Mansfield, K G ^b   Jackson, L R ^a   Diters, R W ^a   Lin, K C ^b   Mackey, J J ^b   Sasseville, V G ^b  

^a Primedica Corporation   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Electron microscopy; Heart; Polymerase chain reaction; Rhesus monkey; Sarcocystis; Skeletal muscle

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; BOS TAURUS; MACACA MULATTA; SARCOCYSTIS; SARCOCYSTIS CRUZI; SARCOCYSTIS FUSIFORMIS; SARCOCYSTIS HIRSUTA; SARCOCYSTIS HOMINIS; SARCOCYSTIS SP.; SARCOCYSTIS TENELLA; SIMIAE; SIMIAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; SIMIAN RETROVIRUS; SIMIAN T-LYMPHOTROPIC VIRUS 1; SIMIAN T-LYMPHOTROPIC VIRUS 3; UNIDENTIFIED RETROVIRUS;

PRIMER DNA; PROTOZOAL RNA; RNA 18S;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CATTLE; CHEMISTRY; COCCIDIOSIS; ECCHYMOSIS; FEMALE; GENETICS; HEART; HEART MUSCLE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MACACA; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MONKEY DISEASE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SARCOCYSTIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SKELETAL MUSCLE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CATTLE; DNA PRIMERS; ECCHYMOSIS; FEMALE; HEART; MACACA MULATTA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MONKEY DISEASES; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MYOCARDIUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, PROTOZOAN; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S; SARCOCYSTIS; SARCOCYSTOSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

EID: 0032199561     PISSN: 03009858     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/030098589803500604     Document Type: Article

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