Molecular detection of Trypanosoma (Kinetoplastida: Trypanosomatidae) in black flies (Diptera: Simuliidae)

Comparative Parasitology

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 171-175

  Reeves, Will K ^a,e   Adler, Peter H ^b   Rätti, Osmo ^c   Malmqvist, Björn ^d   Strasevicius, Darius ^d  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LAPLAND   (Finland)

^d UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^e NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Black fly; Coxiella burnetii; Diptera; Finland; Kinetoplastida; Metacnephia lyra; Simuliidae; Simulium vernum; Trypanosoma avium

Indexed keywords

AVES; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); COXIELLA BURNETII; DIPTERA; KINETOPLASTIDA; LEUCOCYTOZOON; MAMMALIA; MASTIGOPHORA (FLAGELLATES); METACNEPHIA; NEMATODA; PROTOZOA; SIMULIIDAE; SIMULIUM NIGRICOXUM; SIMULIUM VERNUM; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA AVIUM; TRYPANOSOMATIDAE; WOLBACHIA;

EID: 33846499614     PISSN: 15252647     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1654/4243.1     Document Type: Article

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