Advances in the knowledge of amphizoic amoebae infecting fish

Folia Parasitologica

Volumn 51, Issue 2-3, 2004, Pages 81-97

  Dyková, Iva ^a,b   Lom, Jiří ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PARASITOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Acanthamoeba; Amphizoic amoebae; Cochliopodium; Filamoeba; Fish hosts; Naegleria; Neoparamoeba; Nuclearia; Platyamoeba; Thecamoeba; Vannella; Vexillifera

Indexed keywords

ACANTHAMOEBA; ANIMALIA; COCHLIOPODIUM; FILAMOEBA; NAEGLERIA; NEOPARAMOEBA; NUCLEARIA; PLATYAMOEBA; SALMO SALAR; SARCODINA; SARCOMASTIGOPHORA; SCOPHTHALMUS MAXIMUS; THECAMOEBA; VANNELLA; VEXILLIFERA;

EID: 3242784994     PISSN: 00155683     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14411/fp.2004.014     Document Type: Conference Paper

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