Eimeria

Parasitic Diseases of Wild Birds

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 162-180

  Yabsley, Michael J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Avian species of Eimeria infecting and developing within intestinal epithelial cells; Classification of coccidia morphologic characteristics of environmentally resistant sporulated oocyst; Coccidia infecting all classes of vertebrates; Coccidian infections asymptomatic; Coccidiostats and anticoccidial drugs domestic chickens; Galliformes, harboring multiple species of coccidia; Intestinal coccidiosis, serious disease of domesticated and captive wild birds

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650425099     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780813804620.ch8     Document Type: Chapter

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