Dog shedding oocysts of Neospora caninum: PCR diagnosis and molecular phylogenetic approach

Veterinary Parasitology

Volumn 109, Issue 3-4, 2002, Pages 157-167

  Šlapeta, Jan R ^a,b,e   Modrý, David ^a,b   Kyselová, Iveta ^b,c   Hořejš, Radek ^d   Lukeš, Julius ^b,c   Koudela, Břetislav ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY AND PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCES   (Czech Republic)

^b INSTITUTE OF PARASITOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

^d Laboratory of Veterinary Medicine   (Czech Republic)

^e WADSWORTH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Coccidia; Diagnosis; Hammondia; Identification; Neospora; Species specific PCR; Toxoplasma

Indexed keywords

INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER 1; RIBOSOME DNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA ISOLATION; DNA SEQUENCE; DOG; FECES ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NEOSPORA CANINUM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OOCYST; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITE ISOLATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RIBOSOME SUBUNIT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TAXONOMY;

ANIMALS; COCCIDIA; COCCIDIOSIS; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; FECES; NEOSPORA; OOCYSTS; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TOXOPLASMA;

CANIS FAMILIARIS; COCCIDIA; HAMMONDIA; HAMMONDIA HAMMONDI; HAMMONDIA HEYDORNI; NEOSPORA; NEOSPORA CANINUM; NEOSPORA HUGHESI; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

EID: 0037064586     PISSN: 03044017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-4017(02)00273-X     Document Type: Article

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