The first report on natural Enterocytozoon bieneusi and Encephalitozoon spp. infections in wild East-European House Mice (Mus musculus musculus) and West-European House Mice (M. m. domesticus) in a hybrid zone across the Czech Republic-Germany border

Veterinary Parasitology

Volumn 178, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 246-250

  Sak, Bohumil ^a   Kváč, Martin ^a,b   Květoňová, Dana ^a   Albrecht, Tomáš ^c   Piálek, Jaroslav ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF PARASITOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

^c INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE BIOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Encephalitozoon spp.; Enterocytozoon bieneusi; House Mice; Prevalence; Wild mice

Indexed keywords

INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CZECH REPUBLIC; ENCEPHALITOZOON INTESTINALIS; ENCEPHALITOZOONOSIS; ENTEROCYTOZOON; ENTEROCYTOZOON INFECTION; FEMALE; FUNGAL DETECTION; GERMANY; HOST RANGE; MALE; MIXED INFECTION; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; MUS MUSCULUS DOMESTICUS; MUS MUSCULUS MUSCULUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PREVALENCE; SAMPLING; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SUBSPECIES; WILD ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; CZECH REPUBLIC; DNA, PROTOZOAN; ENCEPHALITOZOON; ENTEROCYTOZOON; FECES; FEMALE; GERMANY; MALE; MICE; MICROSPORIDIOSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RODENT DISEASES; SEX FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; ENCEPHALITOZOON; ENCEPHALITOZOON CUNICULI; ENCEPHALITOZOON HELLEM; ENCEPHALITOZOON INTESTINALIS; ENTEROCYTOZOON BIENEUSI; MICROSPORIDIA; MUS; MUS MUSCULUS; MUS MUSCULUS MUSCULUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 79956266973     PISSN: 03044017     EISSN: 18732550     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetpar.2010.12.044     Document Type: Article

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