Detection of Tritrichomonas foetus in cats in Greece

Journal of Feline Medicine and Surgery

Volumn 12, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 831-833

  Xenoulis, Panagiotis G ^a   Saridomichelakis, Manolis N ^b   Read, Sarah A ^a   Suchodolski, Jan S ^a   Steiner, Jörg M ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTOZOAL DNA;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL PARASITOSIS; ARTICLE; ASYMPTOMATIC INFECTION; CAT; CAT DISEASE; FECES; GREECE; INTESTINE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PARASITOLOGY; TRITRICHOMONAS FOETUS;

ANIMALS; ASYMPTOMATIC INFECTIONS; CAT DISEASES; CATS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; FECES; GREECE; INTESTINES; PROTOZOAN INFECTIONS, ANIMAL; TRITRICHOMONAS FOETUS;

TRITRICHOMONAS FOETUS;

EID: 77956872563     PISSN: 1098612X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jfms.2010.05.010     Document Type: Article

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