Angiostrongylus species in wild carnivores in the Iberian Peninsula

Veterinary Parasitology

Volumn 174, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 175-180

  Gerrikagoitia, X ^a   Barral, M ^a   Juste, R A ^a  

^a NEIKER and a Vaccine producing Commercial Company CZVSL   (Spain)

Author keywords

Angiostrongylus daskalovi; Angiostrongylus vasorum; Basque Country; Meles meles; Second internal transcribed spacer (ITS2); Spain; Vulpes vulpes

Indexed keywords

INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER 2; RIBOSOME DNA;

ANGIOSTRONGYLUS; ANGIOSTRONGYLUS DASKALOVI; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CANIS LUPUS; CARNIVORE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FELIS SILVESTRIS; GENETTA GENETTA; MALE; MARTES FOINA; MARTES MARTES; MELES MELES; MUSTELA NIVALIS; MUSTELA PUTORIUS; MUSTELA VISON; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITE PREVALENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPAIN; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; VULPES VULPES; WILD ANIMAL;

ANGIOSTRONGYLUS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; CARNIVORA; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; HEART; LUNG; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PREVALENCE; SPAIN; STRONGYLIDA INFECTIONS;

ANGIOSTRONGYLUS; ANGIOSTRONGYLUS VASORUM; ANIMALIA; CANIDAE; CANIS LUPUS; FELIS SILVESTRIS; GENETTA GENETTA; MARTES FOINA; MARTES MARTES; MELES MELES; MUSTELA NIVALIS; MUSTELA PUTORIUS; MUSTELA VISON; NEMATODA; TAXIDIINAE; VULPES; VULPES VULPES;

EID: 78049395157     PISSN: 03044017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetpar.2010.07.015     Document Type: Article

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