Hammondia heydorni from the Arabian mountain gazelle and red fox in Saudi Arabia

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 89, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 535-539

  Mohammed, Osama B ^a   Davies, Angela J ^b   Hussein, Hussein S ^c   Daszak, Peter ^b,d   Ellis, John T ^e  

^a National Commission for Wildlife Conservation and Development Saudi Arabia   (Saudi Arabia)

^b KINGSTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^d Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANID; FECES; PARASITE; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PREDATION; UNGULATE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASIA; COCCIDIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOG; EXPERIMENTAL TEST; FECES ANALYSIS; FOX; HAMMONDIA HEYDORNI; INTERMEDIATE HOST; MEAT; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OOCYST; POPULATION; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SARCOCYSTIS; SAUDI ARABIA; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SPOROGENESIS;

SAUDI ARABIA;

ANIMALIA; CANIDAE; CANIS FAMILIARIS; COCCIDIA; GAZELLA; GAZELLA GAZELLA; GAZELLA SUBGUTTUROSA MARICA; HAMMONDIA; HAMMONDIA HEYDORNI; NEOSPORA CANINUM; PROTOZOA; SARCOCYSTIS; UNGULATA; VULPES; VULPES VULPES;

EID: 0038006402     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1645/0022-3395(2003)089[0535:HHFTAM]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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