Studies of trichomonad protozoa in free ranging songbirds: Prevalence of Trichomonas gallinae in house finches (Carpodacus mexicanus) and corvids and a novel trichomonad in mockingbirds (Mimus polyglottos)

Veterinary Parasitology

Volumn 161, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 178-186

  Anderson, Nancy L ^a   Grahn, Robert A ^b   Van Hoosear, Karen ^b   BonDurant, Robert H ^b  

^a Lindsay Wildlife Museum   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Corvid; House finch; Mockingbird; Trichomonad

Indexed keywords

RNA 5.8S;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; APHELOCOMA CALIFORNICA; ARTICLE; BIRD; CARPODACUS MEXICANUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORVUS BRACHYRHYNCHOS; CORVUS CORAX; CROW; DNA SEQUENCE; FATALITY; FINCH; FLAGELLATE; MIMUS POLYGLOTTOS; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE PREVALENCE; PHYLOGENY; SCREENING; SONGBIRD; TRICHOMONAS; TRICHOMONAS GALLINAE; TRICHOMONIASIS; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BIRD DISEASES; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; ECOSYSTEM; PHYLOGENY; PREVALENCE; PROTOZOAN INFECTIONS, ANIMAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SONGBIRDS; TIME FACTORS; TRICHOMONADIDA;

APHELOCOMA; APHELOCOMA CALIFORNICA; AVES; CARPODACUS MEXICANUS; COLUMBIFORMES; CORVIDA; CORVUS BRACHYRHYNCHOS; CORVUS CORAX; MIMUS POLYGLOTTOS; PROTOZOA; RAPTORES; TRICHOMONADIDA; TRICHOMONADINAE; TRICHOMONAS GALLINAE; TRITRICHOMONADINAE;

EID: 64549100688     PISSN: 03044017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetpar.2009.01.023     Document Type: Article

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