Occurrence and molecular characterization of Echinococcus granulosus in Turkish mouflon (Ovis gmelinii anatolica)

Acta Tropica

Volumn 109, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 167-169

  Simsek, Sami ^a   Eroksuz, Yesari ^a  

^a FIRAT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Echinococcus granulosus; Genotyping; Mouflon; Turkey

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; MITOCHONDRIAL CYTOCHROME OXIDASE SUBUNIT 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CYST; CYTOCHROME; FLATWORM; GENOTYPE; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; PARASITE; SHEEP;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CYST; CYST ASPIRATION; ECHINOCOCCOSIS; ECHINOCOCCUS GRANULOSUS; FEMALE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOTYPE; LIVER HYDATID CYST; MITOCHONDRION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OVIS GMELINII ANATOLICA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SHEEP; TURKEY (REPUBLIC);

ANIMALS; DNA, HELMINTH; ECHINOCOCCOSIS; ECHINOCOCCUS GRANULOSUS; ELECTRON TRANSPORT COMPLEX IV; FEMALE; HELMINTH PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SHEEP; TURKEY;

EURASIA; TURKEY;

ANATOLICA; ECHINOCOCCUS GRANULOSUS; OVIS; OVIS ARIES; OVIS ARIES MUSIMON;

EID: 57849120286     PISSN: 0001706X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2008.10.008     Document Type: Article

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