Redescription of Besnoitia bennetti (Protozoa: Apicomplexa) from the donkey (Equus asinus)

International Journal for Parasitology

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 659-672

  Dubey, J P ^a   Sreekumar, C ^a   Donovan, T ^b   Rozmanec, M ^b   Rosenthal, B M ^a   Vianna, M C B ^a   Davis, W P ^c   Belden, J S ^d  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

^d NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Besnoitia bennetti; Cell culture; Donkeys; Equus asinus; Gerbils; Mice; Sequence analysis; Taxonomy; Ultrastructure; USA

Indexed keywords

ANTIPROTOZOAL AGENT; FOLIC ACID; NITAZOXANIDE; RIBOSOME DNA; SPACER DNA; SULFAMETHOXAZOLE; TETRACYCLINE; TRIMETHOPRIM;

PARASITOLOGY; PROTOZOAN; TAXONOMY;

ANIMAL TISSUE; APICOMPLEXA; ARTICLE; BESNOITIA BENNETTI; BESNOITIA TARANDI; CAT; CELL CULTURE; DONKEY; FEMALE; GERBIL; KNOCKOUT GENE; MONOCYTE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OOCYST; PARASITE ISOLATION; PARASITOSIS; PROTOZOON; RABBIT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TAXONOMY; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TISSUE SECTION; ULTRASTRUCTURE; UNGULATE; UNITED STATES;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

ANIMALIA; APICOMPLEXA; BESNOITIA; BESNOITIA BENNETTI; BESNOITIA BESNOITI; BESNOITIA TARANDI; BOS TAURUS; BOVINAE; EQUUS; EQUUS ASINUS; FELIS CATUS; GERBILLINAE; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; PROTOZOA; RANGIFER TARANDUS; UNGULATA;

EID: 18044369829     PISSN: 00207519     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpara.2005.01.004     Document Type: Article

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