Prevalence of Hemolivia mauritanica (Apicomplexa: Adeleina: Haemogregarinidae) in natural populations of tortoises of the genus Testudo in the east Mediterranean region

Folia Parasitologica

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 359-361

  Široký, Pavel ^a   Kamler, Martin ^a   Modrý, David ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY AND PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCES   (Czech Republic)

^b INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADELEINA; APICOMPLEXA; HEMOLIVIA; TESTUDINIDAE; TESTUDO; TESTUDO GRAECA; TESTUDO HERMANNI; TESTUDO MARGINATA;

EID: 29144453474     PISSN: 00155683     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14411/fp.2005.049     Document Type: Article

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