Polymerase chain reaction detection of Cytauxzoon felis from field-collected ticks and sequence analysis of the small subunit and internal transcribed spacer 1 region of the ribosomal RNA gene

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 91, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 458-461

  Bondy Jr , P J ^a   Cohn, L A ^a   Tyler, J W ^a   Marsh, A E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER 1; SMALL SUBUNIT RIBOSOMAL RNA;

POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

AMBLYOMMA; ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTAUXZOON FELIS; CYTAUXZOONOSIS; DERMACENTOR; DERMACENTOR VARIABILIS; DOG; FATALITY; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; MICROORGANISM DETECTION; NONHUMAN; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PARASITE VIRULENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTOZOON; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALS; ARACHNID VECTORS; CAT DISEASES; CATS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; DOGS; ERYTHROCYTES; IXODIDAE; MISSOURI; PIROPLASMIDA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTOZOAN INFECTIONS, ANIMAL; RNA, PROTOZOAN; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

ACARI; AMBLYOMMA AMERICANUM; CANIS FAMILIARIS; CYTAUXZOON FELIS; DERMACENTOR VARIABILIS; FELIS; FELIS CATUS;

EID: 19944414311     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1645/GE-374R     Document Type: Article

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