Detection of Babesia canis rossi, B. canis vogeli, and Hepatozoon canis in dogs in a village of Eastern Sudan by using a screening PCR and sequencing methodologies

Clinical and Diagnostic Laboratory Immunology

Volumn 12, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 1343-1346

  Oyamada, Maremichi ^a   Davoust, Bernard ^b   Boni, Mickaël ^c   Dereure, Jacques ^d   Bucheton, Bruno ^e   Hammad, Awad ^f   Itamoto, Kazuhito ^a   Okuda, Masaru ^a   Inokuma, Hisashi ^g  

^a YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Dir du Serv de S en Reg Sud Est   (France)

^c Groupe de Secteurs Vétérinaires Interarmees de Saint Germain en Laye   (France)

^d Faculté de Médecine   (France)

^e AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^f UNIVERSITY OF KHARTOUM   (Sudan)

^g OBIHIRO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BABESIA; BABESIA CANIS ROSSI; BABESIA CANIS VOGELI; DOG; HEPATOZOON CANIS; MICROORGANISM DETECTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOZOAL INFECTION; PROTOZOON; SCREENING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SUDAN;

ANIMALS; BABESIA; BABESIOSIS; COCCIDIA; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SUDAN;

EID: 27744548281     PISSN: 1071412X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/CDLI.12.11.1343-1346.2005     Document Type: Article

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