Diagnosis of Babesia caballi and Theileria equi infections in horses in Sudan using ELISA and PCR

Parasitology Research

Volumn 103, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1145-1150

  Salim, B O M ^a   Hassan, S M ^a   Bakheit, M A ^b   Alhassan, A ^b   Igarashi, I ^b   Karanis, P ^b,c   Abdelrahman, M B ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KHARTOUM   (Sudan)

^b National Research Center for Protozoan Diseases   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^d Central Veterinary Research Laboratories   (Sudan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY;

ARTICLE; BABESIA CABALLI; BLOOD SAMPLING; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; ENDEMIC DISEASE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EQUINE PIROPLASMOSIS; HORSE; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOZOAL INFECTION; SEROLOGY; SUDAN; THEILERIA EQUI;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; BABESIA; BABESIOSIS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; SUDAN; THEILERIA; THEILERIASIS;

BABESIA CABALLI; EQUIDAE; THEILERIA EQUI;

EID: 51449123187     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-008-1108-z     Document Type: Article

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