Avian malaria deaths in parrots, Europe

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 950-952

  Olias, Philipp ^a   Wegelin, Maria ^b   Zenker, Wolfgang ^c   Freter, Sabrina ^a   Gruber, Achim D ^a   Klopflisch, Robert ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b IDEXX Diavet Labor   (Switzerland)

^c Animal Clinic Neuwiesen   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTOZOAL DNA;

ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANIMAL TISSUE; AUTOPSY; AVIAN MALARIA; BULGARIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; EPIDEMIC; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GERMANY; LETTER; MICROBIAL MORPHOLOGY; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORGAN DISTRIBUTION; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARROT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SWITZERLAND; TIME OF DEATH;

ANIMALS; CYTOCHROMES B; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EUROPE; MALARIA, AVIAN; PARROTS; PHYLOGENY; PLASMODIUM; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

EID: 79955782747     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1705.101618     Document Type: Letter

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