Individual oocysts of isospora (apicomplexa: Coccidia) parasites from avian feces: From photo to sequence

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 95, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 169-174

  Dolnik, Olga V ^a,b   Palinauskas, Vaidas ^a,c   Bensch, Staffan ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^c VILNIUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PROTOZOAL DNA;

AVIFAUNA; BLOOD; FECAL PELLET; GENE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MICROSCOPY; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; PROTOZOAN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; APICOMPLEXA; ARTICLE; COCCIDIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA SEQUENCE; FOWL; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC DISTANCE; HAPLOTYPE; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; ISOSPORA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OOCYST; PARASITE ISOLATION; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; BIRD DISEASE; BLOOD; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; FECES; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; ISOSPORIASIS; MICROPHOTOGRAPHY; PARASITOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SONGBIRD; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

APICOMPLEXA; AVES; COCCIDIA; ISOSPORA;

ANIMALS; BIRD DISEASES; DNA, PROTOZOAN; FECES; HAPLOTYPES; ISOSPORA; ISOSPORIASIS; OOCYSTS; PASSERIFORMES; PHOTOMICROGRAPHY; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 64549124310     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1645/GE-1873.1     Document Type: Article

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