Hepatozoon ursi n. sp. (Apicomplexa: Hepatozoidae) in Japanese black bear (Ursus thibetanus japonicus)

Parasitology International

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 287-294

  Kubo, Masahito ^a,b   Uni, Shigehiko ^c   Agatsuma, Takeshi ^d   Nagataki, Mitsuru ^d   Panciera, Roger J ^e   Tsubota, Toshio ^f   Nakamura, Sachiko ^a,b   Sakai, Hiroki ^b   Masegi, Toshiaki ^a,b   Yanai, Tokuma ^a,b  

^a GIFU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b GIFU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c OSAKA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^d KOCHI MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^e OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Hepatozoon ursi n. sp.; Japanese black bear (Ursus thibetanus japonicus); Lung

Indexed keywords

DNA; RNA 18S;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEAR; GAMETOCYTE; GENE SEQUENCE; HEPATOZOON URSI; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LUNG; MEROZOITE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE DEVELOPMENT; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOZOON; SCHIZONT; TROPHOZOITE;

ANIMALS; COCCIDIA; COCCIDIOSIS; JAPAN; LUNG; MEROZOITES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OOCYSTS; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SCHIZONTS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TICKS; URSIDAE;

APICOMPLEXA; HAEMAPHYSALIS; HAEMAPHYSALIS FLAVA; HEPATOZOIDAE; HEPATOZOON; IXODIDA; JAPONICA; URSIDAE; URSUS AMERICANUS; URSUS THIBETANUS;

EID: 44649165067     PISSN: 13835769     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.parint.2008.01.002     Document Type: Article

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