Detection of Hepatozoon canis in stray dogs and cats in Bangkok, Thailand

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1081, Issue , 2006, Pages 479-488

  Jittapalapong, Sathaporn ^a   Rungphisutthipongse, Opart ^b   Maruyama, Soichi ^c   Schaefer, John J ^d   Stich, Roger W ^e  

^a KASETSART UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^b PCR MAHALARB Laboratory   (Thailand)

^c NIHON UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

18 S rRNA gene; Bangkok; Hepatozoon canis; PCR; Stray dogs and cats; Thailand

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME RNA;

AMPLICON; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; BLOOD SAMPLING; BLOOD SMEAR; CAT; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOG; FEMALE; HEPATOZOON CANIS; HOST; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; INFECTION RATE; MALE; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PARASITE VECTOR; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEX DIFFERENCE; THAILAND; ZOONOSIS;

ACARI; ANIMALIA; CANIS FAMILIARIS; HEPATOZOON; HEPATOZOON CANIS;

EID: 33845690077     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1373.071     Document Type: Conference Paper

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