Hepatozoon spp.: Pathological and partial 18S rRNA sequence analysis from three Brazilian dogs

Parasitology Research

Volumn 97, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 167-170

  Paludo, Giane R ^a,b   Friedmann, Horacio ^a   Dell'Porto, Arlete ^a   Macintire, Douglass K ^b   Whitley, Elizabeth M ^b   Boudreaux, Mary K ^b   Baneth, Gad ^c   Blagburn, Byron L ^b   Dykstra, Christine C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRASILIA   (Brazil)

^b AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME RNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOG DISEASE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HEPATOZOON AMERICANUM; HISTOPATHOLOGY; MUSCLE ATROPHY; MUSCLE BIOPSY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITEMIA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOZOON; RNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SKELETAL MUSCLE; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BRAZIL; COCCIDIA; COCCIDIOSIS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; FEMALE; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

CANIDAE; CANIS FAMILIARIS; HEPATOZOON; HEPATOZOON AMERICANUM; HEPATOZOON SP. FUKUOKA;

EID: 24044476602     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-005-1419-2     Document Type: Article

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