Clinical Toxoplasma gondii, Hammondia heydorni, and Sarcocystis spp. infections in dogs

Parassitologia

Volumn 45, Issue 3-4, 2003, Pages 141-146

  Dubey, J P ^a   Ross, A D ^b   Fritz, D ^c  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^b NSW AGRICULTURE   (Australia)

^c Dept of Immunol and Molec Biology Bldg 1425 U States Army Med R   (United States)

Author keywords

Dogs; Hammondia; Sarcocystis; Toxoplasma

Indexed keywords

PROTOZOON ANTIBODY; VIRUS VACCINE; LIVE VACCINE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUSTRIA; BREEDING; CANINE DISTEMPER MORBILLIVIRUS; DOG; FEEDING; HAMMONDIA HEYDORNI; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTESTINE CELL; LAMINA PROPRIA; NEOSPORA CANINUM; NONHUMAN; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PROTOZOAL INFECTION; PROTOZOON; SARCOCYSTIS; SCHIZONT; SHEEP; SMALL INTESTINE; SUPERINFECTION; TISSUE SECTION; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; ULTRASTRUCTURE; VACCINATION; VIRUS INFECTION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL FOOD; ANIMAL PARASITOSIS; COCCIDIA; COCCIDIOSIS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DOG DISEASE; EPIDEMIC; EPITHELIUM; FEMALE; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD CONTROL; IMMUNOLOGY; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INTESTINE INFECTION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MEAT; PARASITOLOGY; TOXOPLASMA;

ANIMALIA; CANINE DISTEMPER VIRUS; CANIS FAMILIARIS; COCCIDIA; HAMMONDIA; HAMMONDIA HEYDORNI; NEOSPORA CANINUM; OVIS ARIES; PROTOZOA; SARCOCYSTIS; SARCOCYSTIS SP.; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

ANIMAL FEED; ANIMALS; COCCIDIOSIS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DISTEMPER VIRUS, CANINE; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; EPITHELIUM; FEMALE; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD PARASITOLOGY; IMMUNOSUPPRESSION; INTESTINAL DISEASES, PARASITIC; INTESTINE, SMALL; MALE; MEAT; SARCOCYSTIDAE; SARCOCYSTIS; SARCOCYSTOSIS; SHEEP; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS, ANIMAL; VACCINES, ATTENUATED; VIRAL VACCINES;

EID: 4444360125     PISSN: 00482951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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