Five new myxosporean species (Myxozoa: Myxosporea) infecting the Nile tilapia Oreochromis niloticus in Bahr Shebin, Nile Tributary, Nile Delta, Egypt

Parasitology Research

Volumn 103, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1197-1205

  Abdel Ghaffar, F ^a   El Toukhy, A ^b   Al Quraishy, S ^c   Al Rasheid, K ^c   Abdel Baki, A S ^d   Hegazy, A ^b   Bashtar, A R ^a  

^a CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^b Menoufia University   (Egypt)

^c KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^d Beni Suef University   (Egypt)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EGYPT; MICROSCOPY; MORPHOLOGY; MORPHOMETRICS; MYXOBOLUS BRANCHIOPHILUS; MYXOBOLUS FOMENAI; MYXOSPORE; NONHUMAN; OREOCHROMIS NILOTICUS; ORTHOLINEA AFRICANUS; PARASITOSIS; PLASMODIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TILAPIA; TRIANGULA EGYPTICA; ZSCHOKKELLA NILEI;

ANIMALS; CICHLIDS; EGYPT; FISH DISEASES; PROTOZOA; PROTOZOAN INFECTIONS, ANIMAL;

MYXOBOLUS; MYXOSPOREA; MYXOZOA; OREOCHROMIS NILOTICUS; ORTHOLINEA; ZSCHOKKELLA;

EID: 51449095544     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-008-1116-z     Document Type: Article

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