Leishmania tropica infection in golden jackals and red foxes, Israel

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 16, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1973-1975

  Talmi Frank, Dalit ^a   Kedem Vaanunu, Noa ^a   King, Roni ^b   Bar Gal, Gila Kahila ^a   Edery, Nir ^c   Jaffe, Charles L ^d   Baneth, Gad ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b Israel Nature and Parks Authority   (Israel)

^c KIMRON VETERINARY INSTITUTE   (Israel)

^d HEBREW UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA EXTRACTION; FOX; GENE CLUSTER; GENE SEQUENCE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; ISRAEL; JACKAL; LEISHMANIA TROPICA; LEISHMANIASIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; RABIES; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; VACCINATION;

ANIMALS; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; FOXES; ISRAEL; JACKALS; LEISHMANIA TROPICA; LEISHMANIASIS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; WOLVES;

EID: 78649616680     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1612.100953     Document Type: Article

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