Absence of Wolbachia endobacteria in the non-filariid nematodes Angiostrongylus cantonensis and A. costaricensis

Parasites and Vectors

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Foster, Jeremy M ^a   Kumar, Sanjay ^a   Ford, Louise ^b   Johnston, Kelly L ^b   Ben, Renata ^c   Graeff Teixeira, Carlos ^c   Taylor, Mark J ^b  

^a Molecular Parasitology Division   (United States)

^b LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^c PONTIFICAL CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGIOSTRONGYLUS; ANGIOSTRONGYLUS CANTONENSIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BIOINFORMATICS; ENDOSYMBIONT; GENE SEQUENCE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTRACELLULAR BACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; WOLBACHIA;

ANGIOSTRONGYLUS CANTONENSIS; ARTHROPODA; BRUGIA MALAYI; ENDOBACTERIA; INVERTEBRATA; METASTRONGYLIDAE; NEMATODA; ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS; ONCHOCERCIDAE; RATTUS; WOLBACHIA; WUCHERERIA BANCROFTI;

EID: 64949160871     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17563305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-3305-1-31     Document Type: Article

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