A molecular survey of bovine Theileria parasites among apparently healthy cattle and with a note on the distribution of ticks in eastern Turkey

Veterinary Parasitology

Volumn 138, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 179-185

  Aktas, Munir ^a   Altay, Kursat ^a   Dumanli, Nazir ^a  

^a FIRAT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Cattle; Microscopy; PCR; Theileria; Tick

Indexed keywords

PRIMER DNA;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CATTLE; COCCIDIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; MICROSCOPY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PARASITE; PARASITE ISOLATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RHIPICEPHALUS; RHIPICEPHALUS SANGUINEUS; SWINE; THEILERIA; THEILERIA ANNULATA; TICK; TURKEY (REPUBLIC);

ALLELES; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; ARACHNID VECTORS; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; IXODIDAE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; THEILERIA; THEILERIASIS; TICK INFESTATIONS; TURKEY;

ACARI; ANIMALIA; BOS TAURUS; BOVINAE; COCCIDIA; HYALOMMA ANATOLICUM ANATOLICUM; IXODIDA; RHIPICEPHALUS; RHIPICEPHALUS BURSA; RHIPICEPHALUS SANGUINEUS; SUS SCROFA; THEILERIA; THEILERIA ANNULATA;

EID: 33646436214     PISSN: 03044017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetpar.2006.01.052     Document Type: Article

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