Molecular identification of Eimeria species infecting market-age meat chickens in commercial flocks in Ontario

Veterinary Parasitology

Volumn 178, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 350-354

  Ogedengbe, Joseph D ^a   Hunter, D Bruce ^a   Barta, John R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Coccidiosis; Diagnosis; Eimeria; Multiplex PCR; RAPD SCAR

Indexed keywords

AGE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL PARASITOSIS; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CANADA; CHICKEN; COCCIDIOSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EIMERIA; EIMERIA ACERVULINA; EIMERIA BRUNETTI; EIMERIA MAXIMA; EIMERIA MITIS; EIMERIA NECATRIX; EIMERIA TENELLA; FECAL FLOTATION METHOD; FECES ANALYSIS; FLOTATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; NONHUMAN; OOCYST; POULTRY; PREVALENCE; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA; SAMPLING; SEQUENCE CHARACTERIZED AMPLIFIED REGION; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION;

ANIMALS; CHICKENS; COCCIDIOSIS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; EIMERIA; FECES; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; ONTARIO; PARASITE EGG COUNT; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POULTRY DISEASES; PREVALENCE;

EIMERIA; EIMERIA ACERVULINA; EIMERIA BRUNETTI; EIMERIA MAXIMA; EIMERIA MITIS; EIMERIA NECATRIX; EIMERIA TENELLA; GALLUS GALLUS;

EID: 79956269673     PISSN: 03044017     EISSN: 18732550     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetpar.2011.01.009     Document Type: Article

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