High prevalence of Sarcocystis calchasi sporocysts in European Accipiter hawks

Veterinary Parasitology

Volumn 175, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 230-236

  Olias, Philipp ^a   Olias, Lena ^a   Krücken, Jürgen ^a   Lierz, Michael ^b   Gruber, Achim D ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Accipitridae; Apicomplexa; Phylogeny; Protozoa; Racing pigeons; Sarcocystosis

Indexed keywords

INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUROPE; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HAWK; INTESTINE INFECTION; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITE ISOLATION; PARASITE PREVALENCE; SARCOCYSTIS; SARCOCYSTIS CALCHASI; SARCOCYSTIS COLUMBAE; SARCOCYSTOSIS; SMALL INTESTINE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPOROCYST;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BIRD DISEASES; DNA, PROTOZOAN; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; FEMALE; GERMANY; HAWKS; HOST SPECIFICITY; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OOCYSTS; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; SARCOCYSTIS; SARCOCYSTOSIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ACCIPITER; ACCIPITER GENTILIS; ACCIPITER NISUS; ACCIPITRIDAE; ACCIPITRINAE; APICOMPLEXA; AVES; COLUMBA; COLUMBA LIVIA; COLUMBA PALUMBUS; COLUMBAE; PROTOZOA; SARCOCYSTIS; SARCOCYSTIS SP.;

EID: 78751611589     PISSN: 03044017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetpar.2010.10.025     Document Type: Article

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