Light and transmission electron microscopic studies of a haemogregarine in naturally infected fan-footed gecko (Ptyodactylus hasselquistii)

Parasitology Research

Volumn 98, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 468-471

  Hussein, Abdel Nasser A ^a  

^a SOUTH VALLEY UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD SMEAR; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; LIFE CYCLE; LIZARD; MEROZOITE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ANIMALS; CELL NUCLEUS; COCCIDIA; COCCIDIOSIS; EGYPT; ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; ERYTHROCYTES; LEUKOCYTES; LIVER; LIZARDS; LUNG; MEROZOITES; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MORPHOGENESIS; ORGANELLES; PARASITEMIA;

GEKKO; PTYODACTYLUS HASSELQUISTII; SQUAMATA;

EID: 33645228748     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-005-0084-9     Document Type: Article

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