A clonal strain of Trichomonas gallinae is the aetiologic agent of an emerging avian epidemic disease

Infection, Genetics and Evolution

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1638-1645

  Lawson, Becki ^a,b   Cunningham, Andrew A ^a   Chantrey, Julian ^b   Hughes, Laura A ^b   John, Shinto K ^a   Bunbury, Nancy ^c   Bell, Diana J ^d   Tyler, Kevin M ^e  

^a INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^c SEYCHELLES ISLANDS FOUNDATION   (Seychelles)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Carduelis chloris; Emerging infectious disease; Epidemiology; Fringilla coelebs; Trichomoniasis; Trichomonosis

Indexed keywords

INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER 1; INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER 2; RNA 5.8S; SMALL SUBUNIT RIBOSOMAL RNA;

ARTICLE; BIRD; BIRD DISEASE; CARDUELIS CHLORIS; CLONAL SPECIES; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDEMIC; FRINGILLA COELEBS; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION (SPECIES); IRON HYDROGENASE GENE; MARKER GENE; MORTALITY; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TRICHOMONAS; TRICHOMONAS GALLINAE; TRICHOMONIASIS; VIRUS STRAIN;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BIRD DISEASES; BIRDS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; EPIDEMICS; FINCHES; GENES, PROTOZOAN; GREAT BRITAIN; HYDROGENASE; IRON-SULFUR PROTEINS; PHYLOGENY; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA TECHNIQUE; TRICHOMONAS; TRICHOMONAS INFECTIONS;

AVES; CARDUELIS CHLORIS; COLUMBIDAE; FRINGILLA; FRINGILLA COELEBS; PROTOZOA; RAPTORES; TRICHOMONAS GALLINAE;

EID: 80053566995     PISSN: 15671348     EISSN: 15677257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.meegid.2011.06.007     Document Type: Article

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