A survey for piroplasmids in horses and Bactrian camels in North-Eastern Mongolia

Veterinary Parasitology

Volumn 179, Issue 1-3, 2011, Pages 246-249

  Sloboda, Michal ^a   Jirků, Milan ^b,c   Lukešová, Daniela ^d   Qablan, Moneeb ^a   Batsukh, Zayat ^e   Fiala, Ivan ^b   Hořín, Petr ^a   Modrý, David ^a,b   Lukeš, Julius ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY AND PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCES   (Czech Republic)

^b INSTITUTE OF PARASITOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

^d CZECH UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

^e Institute of Veterinary Medicine   (Mongolia)

Author keywords

Babesia; Bactrian camel; Dog; Horse; Piroplasmosis; Theileria

Indexed keywords

SMALL SUBUNIT RIBOSOMAL RNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; ASIA; BABESIA CABALLI; BLOOD SMEAR; CAMEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOG; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; EQUINE PIROPLASMOSIS; FEMALE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HEALTH SURVEY; HORSE DISEASE; MALE; MICROSCOPY; MONGOLIA; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; NONHUMAN; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; THEILERIA; THEILERIA EQUI;

ANIMALS; BABESIOSIS; CAMELS; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; FEMALE; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; MALE; MONGOLIA;

BABESIA; BABESIA CABALLI; CAMELIDAE; CAMELUS BACTRIANUS; CANIS FAMILIARIS; EQUIDAE; EQUUS PRZEWALSKII; PIROPLASMIDA; THEILERIA; THEILERIA EQUI;

EID: 79956317915     PISSN: 03044017     EISSN: 18732550     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetpar.2011.01.064     Document Type: Article

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