Ultrastructure, development, and host-parasite relationship of a new species of the genus Pleistophora-a microsporidian parasite of the marine fish Epinephelus chlorostignei

Parasitology Research

Volumn 106, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 39-46

  Abdel Ghaffar, Fathy ^a   Bashtar, Abdel Rahman ^a   Mehlhorn, Heinz ^b   Al Rasheid, Khaled ^c   Al Olayan, Ebtsam ^c   Koura, Eglal ^d   Morsy, Kareem ^a  

^a CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^b HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^d Ain Shams University   (Egypt)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL VACUOLE; EPINEPHELUS CHLOROSTIGNEI; EPITHELIUM CELL; FISH; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; INTESTINE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE DEVELOPMENT; PERITONEAL CAVITY; PLEISTOPHORA; POLAROPLAST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOZOAN SPORE; SCHIZONT; SPOROBLAST; SPOROPHOROCYST;

ANIMALS; BASS; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FISH DISEASES; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; MICROSCOPY; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MICROSPORIDIOSIS; PERITONEAL CAVITY; PLEISTOPHORA;

EPINEPHELUS; PLEISTOPHORA; SWINEPOX VIRUS (STRAIN KASZA);

EID: 71449099529     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-009-1633-4     Document Type: Article

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