Four p67 alleles identified in South African Theileria parva field samples

Veterinary Parasitology

Volumn 167, Issue 2-4, 2010, Pages 244-254

  Sibeko, Kgomotso P ^a   Geysen, Dirk ^b   Oosthuizen, Marinda C ^a   Matthee, Conrad A ^c   Troskie, Milana ^a   Potgieter, Frederick T ^d   Coetzer, Jacobus A W ^a   Collins, Nicola E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^b INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Belgium)

^c STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^d ONDERSTEPOORT VETERINARY INSTITUTE   (South Africa)

Author keywords

African buffalo; Cattle; Characterization; Corridor disease; East Coast fever; p67 gene; Theileria parva

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN P67;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BUFFALO; CATTLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EAST COAST FEVER; GENE DELETION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION (SPECIES); NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE ISOLATION; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SOUTH AFRICA; THEILERIA PARVA;

ALLELES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BUFFALOES; CATTLE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC VARIATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; SOUTH AFRICA; THEILERIA PARVA; THEILERIASIS;

BOS; BOVINAE; IXODIDA; SYNCERUS CAFFER; THEILERIA PARVA;

EID: 74449093652     PISSN: 03044017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetpar.2009.09.026     Document Type: Article

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