A Hammondia-like parasite from the European fox (Vulpes vulpes) forms biologically viable tissue cysts in cell culture

International Journal for Parasitology

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 229-234

  Schares, G ^a   Meyer, J ^a   Barwald A ^a   Conraths, F J ^a   Riebe, R ^a   Bohne, W ^b   Rohn, K ^c   Peters, M ^c  

^a FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bovine finite heart cell line; Bradyzoite; Hammondia; In vitro cell culture; Tissue cyst; Transmission electron microscopy

Indexed keywords

MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; POLYCLONAL ANTIBODY;

LABORATORY METHOD; PARASITOLOGY;

ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL VACUOLE; DNA SEQUENCE; FOX; HAMMONDIA; IN VITRO STUDY; INOCULATION; NEOSPORA CANINUM; NONHUMAN; OOCYST; PARASITE; SPOROZOITE;

BOVINAE; CANIDAE; CANIS FAMILIARIS; HAMMONDIA; HAMMONDIA HEYDORNI; NEOSPORA CANINUM; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; VULPES; VULPES VULPES;

EID: 0037350064     PISSN: 00207519     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0020-7519(03)00009-2     Document Type: Article

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