Hepatozoon canis infection in Slovakia: Imported or autochthonous?

Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 199-202

  Majláthová, Victória ^a   Hurníková, Zuzana ^a   Majláth, Igor ^b   Peťko, Branislav ^a  

^a PARASITOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Slovakia)

^b P J AFÁRIK UNIVERSITY   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Hepatozoon canis; Slovakia; Vulpes vulpes

Indexed keywords

PROTOZOAL DNA; RNA 18S;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BABESIA; BABESIOSIS; BRAZIL; CLIMATE CHANGE; DOG DISEASE; ENDEMIC DISEASE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; FOX; HEART; HEPATOZOON CANIS; JACKAL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION MIGRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOZOAL INFECTION; PROTOZOON; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SLOVAKIA; SPAIN; THEILERIA; TRAVEL;

ANIMALS; BABESIA; BABESIOSIS; COCCIDIA; COCCIDIOSIS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; FOXES; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PUBLIC HEALTH; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SLOVAKIA; THEILERIA; THEILERIASIS;

BABESIA; CANIDAE; CANIS AUREUS; CANIS FAMILIARIS; HEPATOZOON CANIS; PSEUDALOPEX GYMNOCERCUS; RHIPICEPHALUS SANGUINEUS; THEILERIA; VULPES; VULPES VULPES;

EID: 34547613765     PISSN: 15303667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/vbz.2006.0598     Document Type: Article

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