Ultrastructure of schizonts and merozoites of Sarcocystis falcatula in the lungs of budgerigars (Melopsittacus undulatus)

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 85, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 630-637

  Speer, C A ^a   Dubey, J P ^a,b  

^a MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIRD; CELL ORGANELLE; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; LIFE CYCLE; LUNG CAPILLARY; LUNG PARENCHYMA; MEROZOITE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE DEVELOPMENT; SARCOCYSTIS; SARCOSYSTIS FALCATULA; SCHIZONT; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; BIRD DISEASE; COCCIDIOSIS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LUNG; PARASITOLOGY; PARROT; ULTRASTRUCTURE; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM; VASCULARIZATION;

ANIMALS; BIRD DISEASES; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; LUNG; PARROTS; SARCOCYSTIS; SARCOCYSTOSIS;

EID: 0032588755     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3285735     Document Type: Article

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