A molecular survey of Piroplasmida and Hepatozoon isolated from domestic and wild animals in Burgos (northern Spain)

Veterinary Parasitology

Volumn 162, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 147-150

  Gimenez, Consuelo ^a   Casado, Nieves ^a   Criado Fornelio, Ángel ^a   de Miguel, Florencio Álvarez ^a   Dominguez Peñafiel, Gerardo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALCALÁ   (Spain)

^b Servicios Veterinarios   (Spain)

Author keywords

Epizootiology; Hepatozoon; PCR; Piroplasmida

Indexed keywords

RNA 18S;

ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; COCCIDIA; COW; DEER; DOG; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; DONKEY; FOX; GENE SEQUENCE; HARE; HEPATOZOON; HERBIVORE; HORSE; LONTRA CANADENSIS; MOLE (INSECTIVORA); MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; PROTOZOAL INFECTION; PROTOZOON; SPAIN; THEILERIA; THEILERIA ANNULATA; THEILERIA BUFFELI; THEILERIA SERGENTI; VOLE; WILD ANIMAL; WILD BOAR; WILD SPECIES;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; ANIMALS, WILD; COCCIDIA; PIROPLASMIDA; PROTOZOAN INFECTIONS, ANIMAL; SPAIN; TICK-BORNE DISEASES;

ANIMALIA; APODEMUS; CAPREOLUS; CLETHRIONOMYS GLAREOLUS; EQUIDAE; EQUUS ASINUS; HEPATOZOON; HEPATOZOON CANIS; LEPUS; LONTRA CANADENSIS; MAMMALIA; MELES MELES; MUS MUSCULUS; PIROPLASMIDA; PROTOZOA; SUS SCROFA; THEILERIA BUFFELI; VULPES;

EID: 67349083872     PISSN: 03044017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetpar.2009.02.021     Document Type: Article

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