Rodents as intermediate hosts of Hepatozoon ayorgbor (Apicomplexa: Adeleina: Hepatozoidae) from the African ball python, Python regius?

Folia Parasitologica

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 13-16

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

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

^b CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^c INSTITUTE OF PARASITOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Adeleina; Haemogregarines; Hepatozoon; ICR mice; Life cycle; Transmission

Indexed keywords

ADELEINA; APICOMPLEXA; HEPATOZOIDAE; HEPATOZOON; MUS; PYTHON REGIUS; RODENTIA; SERPENTES;

EID: 41549123223     PISSN: 00155683     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14411/fp.2008.003     Document Type: Article

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