Detection of Plasmodium sp. in capybara

Veterinary Parasitology

Volumn 163, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 148-151

  dos Santos, Leonilda Correia ^a   Curotto, Sandra Mara Rotter ^b   de Moraes, Wanderlei ^c   Cubas, Zalmir Silvino ^c   Costa Nascimento, Maria de Jesus ^d   Filho, Ivan Roque de Barros ^b   Biondo, Alexander Welker ^b   Kirchgatter, Karin ^d  

^a Environmental Laboratory   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARANÁ   (Brazil)

^c Bela Vista Biological Sanctuary   (Brazil)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Brazil; Capybaras; PCR; Plasmodium

Indexed keywords

OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; RIBOSOME RNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BLOOD SMEAR; DNA FLANKING REGION; FEMALE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HYDROCHAERIS HYDROCHAERIS; MALARIA; MALE; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMODIUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RODENT; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

ANIMALS; MALARIA; PHYLOGENY; PLASMODIUM; RNA, PROTOZOAN; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; RODENTIA;

ANIMALIA; AVES; HYDROCHAERIS HYDROCHAERIS; PLASMODIUM MEXICANUM; PLASMODIUM SP.; REPTILIA; RODENTIA; SQUAMATA; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

EID: 67349239884     PISSN: 03044017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetpar.2009.03.042     Document Type: Article

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