Canine babesiosis in northern Portugal and molecular characterization of vector-borne co-infections

Parasites and Vectors

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Cardoso, Luís ^a,b   Yisaschar Mekuzas, Yael ^c   Rodrigues, Filipa T ^d   Costa, Álvaro ^e   MacHado, Joo ^a   Diz Lopes, Duarte ^d   Baneth, Gad ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRÁS OS MONTES AND ALTO DOURO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^c HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^d Clínica Veterinria Dr Duarte Diz Lopes   (Portugal)

^e Clínica Veterinria Os Bichos   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ANAPLASMA; ANIMAL EUTHANASIA; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; BABESIOSIS; BLOOD EXAMINATION; BLOOD SMEAR; COUGHING; DERMACENTOR; DISEASE CARRIER; DNA SEQUENCE; EHRLICHIA CANIS; EYE DISCHARGE; FEMALE; HEPATOZOONOSIS; HYPERTHERMIA; HYPOTHERMIA; INFESTATION; IXODES; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; LETHARGY; MALE; MIXED INFECTION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MORTALITY; MUCOSA; NONHUMAN; PALLOR; PATHOGENESIS; PETECHIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PORTUGAL; RHIPICEPHALUS SANGUINEUS; VOMITING;

ANIMALIA; ARTHROPODA; BABESIA; BABESIA CANIS; BABESIA CANIS CANIS; BABESIA CANIS VOGELI; CANIS FAMILIARIS; DERMACENTOR; EHRLICHIA CANIS; HEPATOZOON; HEPATOZOON CANIS; IXODES; IXODIDA; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; PHLEBOTOMINAE; PROTOZOA; RHIPICEPHALUS SANGUINEUS;

EID: 77950688793     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17563305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-3305-3-27     Document Type: Article

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