High prevalence of Blastocystis sp. in pigs reared under intensive growing systems: Frequency of ribotypes and associated risk factors

Veterinary Parasitology

Volumn 153, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 347-358

  Navarro, C ^a   Dominguez Marquez M V ^b   Garijo Toledo, M M ^a   Vega Garcia S ^a   Fernandez Barredo S ^a   Perez Gracia M T ^a   Garcia A ^a   Borras R ^b   Gomez Munoz M T ^a  

^a Facultad de Ciencias Experimentales y de la Salud   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Blastocystis; Pig; Risk factor; Zoonosis

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANUS CONTINENCE; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYSTIS; DIGESTION; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; MALE; MICROSCOPY; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE ISOLATION; PARASITE PREVALENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; RIBOTYPING; RISK FACTOR; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SWINE; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; WEANING; ZOONOSIS;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; BLASTOCYSTIS; BLASTOCYSTIS INFECTIONS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; FECES; FEMALE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; MALE; PARASITE EGG COUNT; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; PREVALENCE; RIBOTYPING; RISK FACTORS; SEASONS; SWINE; SWINE DISEASES; ZOONOSES;

ANIMALIA; BLASTOCYSTIS; BLASTOCYSTIS HOMINIS; BLASTOCYSTIS SP.; BOS; PRIMATES; SUIDAE;

EID: 42249085065     PISSN: 03044017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetpar.2008.02.003     Document Type: Article

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