Duddingtonia flagrans: Centrifugal flotation technique with magnesium sulphate for the quantification and qualification of chlamydospores in sheep faeces

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 121, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 187-188

  Silva, Aleksandro Schafer da ^a   Zanette, Régis Adriel ^a   Otto, Mateus Anderson ^a   Soares, Cláudia Dal Molin ^a   Alves, Sydney Hartz ^a   Monteiro, Silvia Gonzalez ^a   Santurio, Janio Morais ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SANTA MARIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Biological control; Chlamydospores; Duddingtonia flagrans

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CENTRIFUGATION; CHLAMYDOSPORE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DUDDINGTONIA; FECES; FLOTATION; FUNGAL DETECTION; FUNGAL MORPHOLOGY; MAGNESIUM SULFATE CENTRIFUGAL FLOTATION TECHNIQUE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHEEP;

ANIMALS; ASCOMYCOTA; CENTRIFUGATION; FECES; FILTRATION; MAGNESIUM SULFATE; MALE; SHEEP; SPORES, FUNGAL;

DUDDINGTONIA FLAGRANS; FUNGI; OVIS; OVIS ARIES; VERMES;

EID: 57949102724     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: 10902449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exppara.2008.10.005     Document Type: Article

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