Evidence for bovine besnoitiosis being endemic in Italy-First in vitro isolation of Besnoitia besnoiti from cattle born in Italy

Veterinary Parasitology

Volumn 184, Issue 2-4, 2012, Pages 108-115

  Gentile, A ^a   Militerno, G ^a   Schares, G ^b   Nanni, A ^c   Testoni, S ^d   Bassi, P ^a   Gollnick, N S ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (Germany)

^c University of Padua ^*

^d UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Besnoitia besnoiti; Besnoitiosis; In vitro isolation

Indexed keywords

DNA; INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER 1; RIBOSOME RNA; RNA 18S;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BESNOITIA BESNOITI; BESNOITIOSIS; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BRADYZOITE; CELL CULTURE; COCCIDIA; COW; CYST (RESTING STAGE); DAIRY CATTLE; DNA EXTRACTION; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HERD; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; IN VITRO STUDY; INOCULATION; ITALY; LICHENOID ERUPTION; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE ISOLATION; PERITONEAL FLUID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SEROLOGY; SEROPREVALENCE; SKINFOLD THICKNESS;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; CELL LINE; COCCIDIOSIS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; ENDEMIC DISEASES; FEMALE; GENES, RRNA; ITALY; MALE; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SARCOCYSTIDAE; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; SKIN;

ANIMALIA; BESNOITIA BESNOITI; BOS; BOVINAE; EMILIA; FRIESIA; MUS;

EID: 84855936164     PISSN: 03044017     EISSN: 18732550     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetpar.2011.09.014     Document Type: Article

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