Blood parasites in sage-grouse from Nevada and Oregon

Journal of Wildlife Diseases

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 203-208

  Dunbar, Mike R ^a   Tornquist, Susan ^b   Giordano, Mark R ^a  

^a U S FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE   (United States)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Blood parasites; Centrocercus urophasianus; Leucocytozoon lovati; Nevada; Oregon; Plasmodium; Sage grouse

Indexed keywords

AVES; CENTROCERCUS; CENTROCERCUS UROPHASIANUS; GALLUS GALLUS; LEUCOCYTOZOON; PHASIANIDAE; SALVIA;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL PARASITOSIS; ARTICLE; BIRD; BIRD DISEASE; COCCIDIA; FEMALE; HEMATOCRIT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PARASITEMIA; PARASITOLOGY; PLASMODIUM; PREVALENCE; REPRODUCTION; SEASON; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; BIRD DISEASES; BIRDS; FEMALE; HAEMOSPORIDA; HEMATOCRIT; NEVADA; OREGON; PARASITEMIA; PLASMODIUM; PREVALENCE; PROTOZOAN INFECTIONS, ANIMAL; REPRODUCTION; SEASONS;

EID: 0141958583     PISSN: 00903558     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7589/0090-3558-39.1.203     Document Type: Article

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