Besnoitia neotomofelis n. sp. (Protozoa: Apicomplexa) from the southern plains woodrat (Neotoma micropus)

Parasitology

Volumn 137, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1731-1747

  Dubey, J P ^a   Yabsley, M J ^b  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Besnoitia neotomofelis n. sp.; cats; cell culture; mice; schizonts; USA; woodrat

Indexed keywords

SULFADIAZINE;

ACUTE BESNOITIOSIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BESNOITIA NEOTOMOFELIS; BESNOITIOSIS; BLADDER; BRADYZOITE; BRAIN; CAT; CHLOROCEBUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; FEMALE; GAMONT; GOBLET CELL; HEART; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; KIDNEY; KIDNEY CELL; LAMINA PROPRIA; LEG MUSCLE; LIVER; LUNG; MEROZOITE; MESENTERY LYMPH NODE; MICROSCOPY; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; MONOCYTE; NONHUMAN; OPOSSUM; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOZOON; RABBIT; RODENT; SCHIZONT; SMALL INTESTINE; SMALL INTESTINE MUCOSA; SWISS WEBSTER MOUSE; TACHYZOITE; TISSUE SECTION; TONGUE; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

ANIMALS; CAT DISEASES; CATS; CATTLE; CELLS, CULTURED; COCCIDIOSIS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MONOCYTES; RABBITS; RATS; RODENT DISEASES; SARCOCYSTIDAE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SIGMODONTINAE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

APICOMPLEXA; BESNOITIA; BESNOITIA DARLINGI; BESNOITIA ORYCTOFELISI; BOVINAE; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; DIDELPHIDAE; MUS; NEOTOMA MICROPUS; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; PROTOZOA; RATTUS NORVEGICUS; RODENTIA; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

EID: 78650513321     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: 14698161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0031182010000636     Document Type: Article

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