Molecular detection of Leucocytozoon lovati from probable vectors, black flies (Simuliudae) collected in the alpine regions of Japan

Parasitology Research

Volumn 104, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 251-255

  Sato, Yukita ^a   Tamada, Asumi ^a   Mochizuki, Yayoi ^a   Nakamura, Shino ^a   Okano, Emiko ^a   Yoshida, Chihiro ^a   Ejiri, Hiroko ^a   Omori, Sumie ^a   Yukawa, Masayoshi ^a   Murata, Koichi ^a  

^a NIHON UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME B; DNA;

ARTICLE; DISEASE CARRIER; FLY; GENE SEQUENCE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; JAPAN; LAGOPUS MUTUS JAPONICUS; LEUCOCYTOZOON LOVATI; MITOCHONDRIAL GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSIMULIUM HIRTIPES; PROSIMULIUM MUTATA; PROSIMULIUM YEZOENSE; PROTOZOON; SIMULIUM JAPONICUM; SIMULIUM UCHIDAI; TWINNIA JAPONENSIS;

ANIMALS; CYTOCHROMES B; DISEASE VECTORS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; DNA, PROTOZOAN; FEMALE; HAEMOSPORIDA; JAPAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SIMULIIDAE;

ARTHROPODA; AVES; HEXAPODA; LAGOPUS MUTUS; LEUCOCYTOZOON; LEUCOCYTOZOON LOVATI; PROSIMULIUM; PROSIMULIUM HIRTIPES; PROTOZOA; SIMILIUM; SIMULIIDAE; SIMULIUM NIGRICOXUM; TWINNIA;

EID: 58649088489     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-008-1183-1     Document Type: Article

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