Identification of a putatively novel trichomonad species in the intestine of a common quail (Coturnix coturnix)

Veterinary Parasitology

Volumn 183, Issue 3-4, 2012, Pages 369-372

  Mostegl, Meike M ^a   Richter, Barbara ^a   Nedorost, Nora ^a   Maderner, Anton ^a   Dinhopl, Nora ^a   Kübber Heiss, Anna ^a   Weissenböck, Herbert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

Author keywords

Chromogenic in situ hybridization; Coturnix coturnix; Enteritis; Quail; Trichomonads

Indexed keywords

PROTOZOAL DNA; RNA 18S;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHROMOGENIC IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; COLON MUCOSA; COTURNIX; DNA EXTRACTION; GENE PROBE; GENE SEQUENCE; HISTOMONAS MELEAGRIDIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INTESTINE; INTESTINE CRYPT; LAMINA PROPRIA; LYMPHOCYTIC INFILTRATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; TETRATRICHOMONAS GALLINARUM; TISSUE SECTION; TRICHOMONADIDA; TRICHOMONAS GALLINAE; TRITRICHOMONAS FOETUS;

ANIMALS; BIRD DISEASES; COLON; COTURNIX; DNA, PROTOZOAN; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; GENES, RRNA; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INTESTINAL MUCOSA; LYMPHOCYTES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRICHOMONAS; TRICHOMONAS INFECTIONS;

AVES; COTURNIX COTURNIX; HISTOMONAS MELEAGRIDIS; PHASIANIDAE; PROTOZOA; TETRATRICHOMONAS GALLINARUM; TRICHOMONADIDA; TRICHOMONAS GALLINAE; TRITRICHOMONAS; TRITRICHOMONAS FOETUS;

EID: 83255187311     PISSN: 03044017     EISSN: 18732550     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetpar.2011.07.036     Document Type: Article

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