Detection of Encephalitozoon cuniculi in a new host - Cockateel (Nymphicus hollandicus) using molecular methods

Parasitology Research

Volumn 101, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1685-1688

  Kasickova D ^a   Sak, B ^b   Kvac M ^b   Ditrich, O ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

^b INSTITUTE OF PARASITOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COCKATEEL; ENCEPHALITOZOON CUNICULI; FECES; FOWL; HOST; MICROORGANISM DETECTION; MICROSCOPY; MICROSPORIDA; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; NYMPHICUS HOLLANDICUS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMPLE; SCREENING; STAINING; ZOO ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; BIRD DISEASES; COCKATOOS; DNA, FUNGAL; ENCEPHALITOZOON CUNICULI; ENCEPHALITOZOONOSIS; FECES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

AVES; ENCEPHALITOZOON CUNICULI; MICROSPORIDIA; NYMPHICUS HOLLANDICUS;

EID: 34948858469     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-007-0720-7     Document Type: Article

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