Another African disease in Central Europa: Besnoitiosis of cattle. I. Light and electron microscopical study

Parasitology Research

Volumn 104, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 861-868

  Mehlhorn, Heinz ^a   Klimpel, Sven ^a   Schein, Eberhard ^b   Heydorn, Alfred Otto ^b   Al Quraishy, Saleh ^c   Selmair, Josef ^d  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^c KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^d NONE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALOPECIA; ARTICLE; BESNOITIOSIS; CATTLE; CELL VACUOLE; CORNEA; CYST; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GERMANY; HERD; HOST CELL; HYPERKERATOSIS; MEROZOITE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCLERODERMA; SUBCUTANEOUS TISSUE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; CATTLE DISEASE; CLASSIFICATION; COCCIDIA; COCCIDIOSIS; FEMALE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MICROSCOPY; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PATHOLOGY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALIA; BESNOITIA BESNOITI; BOS; CHIRONOMIDAE; COCCIDIA; CULICOIDES OBSOLETUS; CULICOIDES PULICARIS;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; COCCIDIOSIS; FEMALE; GERMANY; MALE; MICROSCOPY; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; SARCOCYSTIDAE;

EID: 65549165895     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-008-1267-y     Document Type: Article

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