Identification of blood parasites in old world warbler species from the Danube river delta

Avian Diseases

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 634-636

  Svoboda, Aleš ^a   Marthinsen, Gunnhild ^b   Turčoková, Lucia ^a   Lifjeld, Jan T ^b   Johnsen, Arild ^b  

^a PALACKÝ UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Acrocephalidae; Blood parasite; Hemosporidia; PCR; Songbird; Sylviidae

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL PARASITOSIS; APICOMPLEXA; ARTICLE; BIRD DISEASE; BLOOD; ECOSYSTEM; GERMANY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PARASITOLOGY; PREVALENCE; PROTOZOAL INFECTION; RIVER; SONGBIRD;

ANIMALS; APICOMPLEXA; BIRD DISEASES; ECOSYSTEM; GERMANY; PARASITIC DISEASES, ANIMAL; PASSERIFORMES; PREVALENCE; PROTOZOAN INFECTIONS; RIVERS;

ACROCEPHALUS ARUNDINACEUS; ACROCEPHALUS PALUSTRIS; ARTHROPODA; AVES; HAEMOPROTEUS; LEUCOCYTOZOON; PASSERI; SYLVIIDAE;

EID: 73449106472     PISSN: 00052086     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1637/8842-040409-Case.1     Document Type: Article

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