Prevalence and intensity of blood apicomplexan infections in reptiles from Romania

Parasitology Research

Volumn 102, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1081-1083

  Mihalca, A D ^a   Racka, K ^b   Gherman, C ^a   Ionescu, D T ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES AND VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Romania)

^b Institute of Parasitology   (Slovakia)

^c TRANSILVANIA UNIVERSITY OF BRASOV   (Romania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APICOMPLEXA; ARTICLE; BLOOD PARASITE; BLOOD SMEAR; LIZARD; NONHUMAN; PARASITOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPTILE; ROMANIA; TURTLE; WILDLIFE;

EMYS; EMYS ORBICULARIS; LACERTA AGILIS; REPTILIA; SQUAMATA; TESTUDO GRAECA;

EID: 41549115342     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-008-0912-9     Document Type: Article

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