Factors affecting the component community structure of haemoparasites in common voles (Microtus arvalis) from the Mazury Lake District region of Poland

Parasitology Research

Volumn 92, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 270-284

  Pawelczyk, A ^a   Bajer, A ^a   Behnke, J M ^b   Gilbert, F S ^b   Sinski, E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; ANAPLASMATACEAE; ARTICLE; BABESIA MICROTI; BARTONELLA; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; FEMALE; HEPATOZOON LAVIERI; HOST; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; INFECTION; MALE; MICROTUS ARVALIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE; PARASITE PREVALENCE; POLAND; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEASON; SEASONAL POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEX; SPECIES RICHNESS; TRYPANOSOMA; VOLE;

ANIMALS; ARVICOLINAE; BABESIA MICROTI; BABESIOSIS; BARTONELLA; BARTONELLA INFECTIONS; BIODIVERSITY; BLOOD; FEMALE; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; MALE; MYCOPLASMA; MYCOPLASMA INFECTIONS; POLAND; PROTOZOA; PROTOZOAN INFECTIONS, ANIMAL; RODENT DISEASES; SEASONS; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMIASIS;

BABESIA; BABESIA MICROTI; BARTONELLA; HEPATOZOON; MICROTUS; MICROTUS ARVALIS; MURIDAE; MYCOPLASMA; RODENTIA; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA SP.;

EID: 1542509940     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-003-1040-1     Document Type: Article

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