Exploring the life cycle of Besnoitia besnoiti-Experimental infection of putative definitive and intermediate host species

Veterinary Parasitology

Volumn 178, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 223-234

  Basso, W ^a   Schares, G ^b   Gollnick, N S ^c   Rutten M ^a   Deplazes, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Besnoitia besnoiti; Definitive hosts; Immune response; Intermediate hosts; Life cycle; PCR

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL PARASITOSIS; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ANTIBODY TITER; APICOMPLEXA; APICOMPLEXAN LIFE CYCLE STAGE; ARTICLE; BESNOITIA BESNOITI; BESNOITIOSIS; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BRADYZOITE; CAT; CONJUNCTIVITIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; COW; DNA DETERMINATION; DOG; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; EXPERIMENTAL INFECTION; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FEVER; GERBIL; GUINEA PIG; HEART; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; INOCULATION; KIDNEY PARENCHYMA; LUNG PARENCHYMA; MALE; MOUSE; MUSCLE TISSUE; NONHUMAN; OOCYST; PNEUMONIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RABBIT; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCROTAL SWELLING; SEDIMENTATION FLOTATION TECHNIQUE; SEROCONVERSION; SKIN; TACHYZOITE; VOLE;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; COCCIDIOSIS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; EUROPE; FECES; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOBLOTTING; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; MALE; PARASITE EGG COUNT; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SARCOCYSTIDAE;

ANIMALIA; BESNOITIA BESNOITI; BOS; BOVINAE; CANIS FAMILIARIS; CAVIA; CAVIA PORCELLUS; GERBILLINAE; MERIONES UNGUICULATUS; MICROTUS ARVALIS; MURIDAE; MUS; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 79956264287     PISSN: 03044017     EISSN: 18732550     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetpar.2011.01.027     Document Type: Article

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