Sarcocystis species lethal for domestic pigeons

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 497-499

  Olias, Philipp ^a   Gruber, Achim D ^a   Kohls, Andrea ^a   Hafez, Hafez M ^a   Heydorn, Alfred Otto ^a   Mehlhorn, Heinz ^b   Lierz, Michael ^a,c  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE SEQUENCE; GERMANY; LETHALITY; LIFE CYCLE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PHYLOGENY; PIGEON; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SARCOCYSTIS;

ANIMALS; BIRD DISEASES; COLUMBIDAE; DNA, PROTOZOAN; GERMANY; HAWKS; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; SARCOCYSTIS; SARCOCYSTOSIS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 77649174130     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1603.090860     Document Type: Article

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