A new species of Hepatozoon (Apicomplexa: Adeleorina) from Python regius (Serpentes: Pythonidae) and its experimental transmission by a mosquito vector

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 93, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1189-1198

  Sloboda, Michal ^a   Kamler, Martin ^a   Bulantová, Jana ^a,b   Votýpka, Jan ^a,b,c,d   Modrý, David ^a,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY AND PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCES   (Czech Republic)

^b CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^c INSTITUTE OF PARASITOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DISEASE VECTOR; HOST SPECIFICITY; LIFE CYCLE; LIZARD; MORPHOLOGY; MOSQUITO; NEW SPECIES; PARASITE; PHYLOGENETICS; PROTOZOAN; SNAKE;

ADELEORINA; APICOMPLEXA; ARTICLE; BLOOD; ERYTHROCYTE; EXPERIMENTAL TRANSMISSION; EXPERIMENTATION; GAMETOCYTE; HEAPTOZOON AYORGBOR; HOST RANGE; INFECTION; LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT; MORPHOLOGY; MOSQUITO VECTOR; NONHUMAN; PARASITE VECTOR; PATHOGENICITY; PHYLOGENY; PYTHON REGIUS; SNAKE; SPECIES INTRODUCTION; TAXONOMY;

ANIMALS; BOIDAE; COCCIDIA; COCCIDIOSIS; CULEX; DNA, PROTOZOAN; ERYTHROCYTES; INSECT VECTORS; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

AFRICA; GHANA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WEST AFRICA;

ADELEORINA; APICOMPLEXA; BOA CONSTRICTOR; CULEX PIPIENS QUINQUEFASCIATUS; HEPATOZOON; LAMPROPHIS FULIGINOSUS; LEPIDODACTYLUS LUGUBRIS; PYTHON REGIUS; PYTHONIDAE; REPTILIA; SERPENTES; SQUAMATA;

EID: 36749007189     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1645/GE-1200R.1     Document Type: Article

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