Prevalence of blood parasites in different local populations of reed warbler (Acrocephalus scirpaceus) and great reed warbler (Acrocephalus arundinaceus)

Parasitology Research

Volumn 99, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 588-592

  Shurulinkov, Peter ^a   Chakarov, Nayden ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIODIVERSITY AND ECOSYSTEM RESEARCH   (Bulgaria)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEUCOCYTOZOON; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACROCEPHALUS ARUNDINACEUS; ACROCEPHALUS SCIRPACEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRD; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECTOPARASITE; HEMAPROTEUS; HEPATOZOON; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; PARASITE; PLASMODIUM; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRYPANOSOMA; VERTICAL POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; WEATHER;

ANIMALS; BIRD DISEASES; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS; PREVALENCE; PROTOZOAN INFECTIONS, ANIMAL; SONGBIRDS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ACROCEPHALUS; ACROCEPHALUS ARUNDINACEUS; ACROCEPHALUS SCIRPACEUS; HAEMOPROTEUS; HEPATOZOON;

EID: 33748373592     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-006-0202-3     Document Type: Article

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