New species of Cryptosporidium Tyzzer, 1907 (Apicomplexa) from amphibian host: Morphology, biology and phylogeny

Folia Parasitologica

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 81-94

  Jirků, Miloslav ^a,b   Valigurová, Andrea ^c   Koudela, Břetislav ^a,b   Křížek, Jaroslav ^b   Modrý, David ^a,b   Šlapeta, Jan ^d  

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

^b INSTITUTE OF PARASITOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^c MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cryptosporidium fragile; Duttaphrynus melanostictus; Frog; Global amphibian decline; Host specificity; New species; Phylogeny; Quarantine; Ultrastructure

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIA; ANIMALIA; ANURA; APICOMPLEXA; BUFO MELANOSTICTUS; BUFONIDAE; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM ANDERSONI; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM MURIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM SERPENTIS; MUS; REPTILIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 47249118016     PISSN: 00155683     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14411/fp.2008.011     Document Type: Article

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