Using PCR for unraveling the cryptic epizootiology of livestock trypanosomosis in the Pantanal, Brazil

Veterinary Parasitology

Volumn 117, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 1-13

  Davila A M R ^a   Herrera, H M ^a   Schlebinger, T ^a   Souza, S S ^a   Traub Cseko, Y M ^a  

^a INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Brazil; Diagnosis; Livestock; Pantanal; PCR; Protozoa; Trypanosoma evansi; Trypanosoma vivax

Indexed keywords

PROTOZOAL DNA;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; BUFFALO; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CARRIER; EPIZOOTIOLOGY; GENETICS; HOST; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LIVESTOCK; METHODOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PARASITE EXAMINATION; PARASITOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASE; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA EVANSI; TRYPANOSOMA VIVAX; TRYPANOSOMIASIS; ZOONOSIS;

BOS TAURUS; BUBALUS; OVIS ARIES; PROTOZOA; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA EVANSI; TRYPANOSOMA VIVAX; TRYPANOZOON;

EID: 0242298597     PISSN: 03044017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetpar.2003.08.002     Document Type: Article

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