Brown-headed cowbirds (Molothrus ater) harbor Sarcocystis neurona and act as intermediate hosts

Veterinary Parasitology

Volumn 153, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 24-43

  Mansfield, L S ^a   Mehler, S ^a   Nelson, K ^b   Elsheikha, H M ^c   Murphy, A J ^a   Knust, B ^a   Tanhauser, S M ^d   Gearhart, P M ^a   Rossano, M G ^a   Bowman, D D ^e   Schott, H C ^a   Patterson, J S ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MPI RESEARCH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^d University of Florida College of Veterinary Medicine   (United States)

^e Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Brown headed cowbird (Molothrus ater); Equine protozoal myeloencephalitis (EPM); Intermediate host; Life cycle; Opossum (Didelphis virginiana); Sarcocystis neurona

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON; SMALL SUBUNIT RIBOSOMAL RNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BIRD; BREAST; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA SEQUENCE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; INFECTION RATE; LEG MUSCLE; MEROZOITE; MOLOTHRUS ATER; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPOSSUM; PATHOGENESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTOZOAL INFECTION; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SARCOCYSTIS FALCATULA; SARCOCYSTIS NEURONA; SKIN CELL;

ANIMALS; BIRD DISEASES; HORSES; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; INTERFERON TYPE II; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; OPOSSUMS; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; SARCOCYSTIS; SARCOCYSTOSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN; SONGBIRDS; SPECIFIC PATHOGEN-FREE ORGANISMS;

AVES; DIDELPHIDAE; DIDELPHIS VIRGINIANA; EQUIDAE; MOLOTHRUS; MOLOTHRUS ATER; MUS; SARCOCYSTIS; SARCOCYSTIS FALCATULA; SARCOCYSTIS NEURONA;

EID: 41149173529     PISSN: 03044017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetpar.2007.12.016     Document Type: Article

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