Avian malaria in captive psittacine birds: Detection by microscopy and 18S rRNA gene amplification

Preventive Veterinary Medicine

Volumn 88, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 220-224

  Belo, N O ^a   Passos, L F ^a   Junior L M C ^a   Goulart, C E ^a   Sherlock, T M ^b   Braga, E M ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^b Municipal Zoological Garden of Fortaleza   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Captivity; Microscopy; PCR; Plasmodium; Psittacidae; Zoo

Indexed keywords

PROTOZOAL DNA; RNA 18S;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BIRD DISEASE; BRAZIL; CHEMISTRY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITEMIA; PARASITOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PLASMODIUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PSITTACINE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BRAZIL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DNA, PROTOZOAN; FEMALE; MALARIA, AVIAN; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PARASITEMIA; PHYLOGENY; PLASMODIUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PSITTACIFORMES; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

AMAZONA AESTIVA; AMAZONA AMAZONICA; ARA ARARAUNA; AVES; PSITTACIDAE; PSITTACIFORMES;

EID: 58149520311     PISSN: 01675877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.prevetmed.2008.09.007     Document Type: Article

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