Sarcocystis infecting reptiles in Saudi Arabia : 11-Light and electron microscopic study on Sarcocysts of Sarcocystis turcicii sp. nov. infecting the gecko Hemidactylus turcicus Linnaeus

Parasitology Research

Volumn 104, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 503-508

  Abdel Ghaffar, Fathy ^a   Bashtar, Abdel Rahman ^a   Al Quraishy, Saleh ^b   Al Nasr, Ibrahim ^c   Mehlhorn, Heinz ^d  

^a CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^b KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^c QASSIM UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^d HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; MALE; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPTILE; SARCOCYSTIS; SARCOCYSTOSIS; SAUDI ARABIA; SKELETAL MUSCLE; ANIMAL; CHORDATA; CLASSIFICATION; CYST; CYTOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MEROZOITE; PARASITOLOGY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

APICOMPLEXA; GEKKONIDAE; HEMIDACTYLUS TURCICUS; REPTILIA; SARCOCYSTIS;

ANIMALS; CHORDATA; CYSTS; FEMALE; MALE; MEROZOITES; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; SARCOCYSTIS; SARCOCYSTOSIS; SAUDI ARABIA;

EID: 63849227539     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-008-1221-z     Document Type: Article

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