Detection of Toxoplasma gondii, Neospora caninum, and Encephalitozoon cuniculi in the brains of common voles (Microtus arvalis) and water voles (Arvicola terrestris) by gene amplification techniques in western Austria (Vorarlberg)

Parasitology Research

Volumn 107, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 469-473

  Fuehrer, Hans Peter ^a   Blöschl, Ingrid ^a   Siehs, Christian ^b   Hassl, Andreas ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES TECHNIKUM WIEN   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ARVICOLA TERRESTRIS; AUSTRIA; BRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENCEPHALITOZOON CUNICULI; FEMALE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; MALE; MICROTUS ARVALIS; NEOSPORA CANINUM; NONHUMAN; PARASITE PREVALENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; VOLE; ZOONOSIS; ANIMAL; ARVICOLINAE; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; NEOSPORA; PARASITOLOGY; PREVALENCE; PROCEDURES; PROTOZOAN INFECTIONS, ANIMAL; RODENT DISEASES; TOXOPLASMA;

ANIMALS; ARVICOLINAE; AUSTRIA; BRAIN; ENCEPHALITOZOON CUNICULI; NEOSPORA; PARASITOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; PROTOZOAN INFECTIONS, ANIMAL; RODENT DISEASES; TOXOPLASMA;

ANIMALIA; ARVICOLA TERRESTRIS; ARVICOLINAE; ENCEPHALITOZOON CUNICULI; MICROTUS ARVALIS; MICROTUS RICHARDSONI; MURIDAE; NEOSPORA CANINUM; PROTOZOA; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

EID: 77955472515     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-010-1905-z     Document Type: Article

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