Toxoplasma gondii inclusions in peripheral blood leukocytes of a red-necked wallaby (Macropus rufogriseus)

Veterinary Clinical Pathology

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 97-100

  Adkesson, Michael J ^a   German, M Elena ^a   Hsiao, Vincent ^a   Whittington, Julia K ^a   Langan, Jennifer N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Leukocyte; Marsupial; Protozoa; Toxoplasma gondii; Toxoplasmosis; Wallaby

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL PARASITOSIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; FATALITY; LEUKOCYTE; MALE; MARSUPIAL; PARASITOLOGY; TOXOPLASMA;

ANIMALS; FATAL OUTCOME; LEUKOCYTES; MACROPODIDAE; MALE; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS, ANIMAL;

MACROPODIDAE; MACROPUS RUFOGRISEUS; METATHERIA; PROTOZOA; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

EID: 34047256254     PISSN: 02756382     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1939-165X.2007.tb00190.x     Document Type: Article

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