Tritrichomonas foetus isolates from cats and cattle show minor genetic differences in unrelated loci ITS-2 and EF-1α

Veterinary Parasitology

Volumn 185, Issue 2-4, 2012, Pages 138-144

  Reinmann, Karin ^a   Müller, Norbert ^a   Kuhnert, Peter ^a   Campero, Carlos M ^b   Leitsch, David ^c   Hess, Michael ^d   Henning, Klaus ^e   Fort, Marcelo ^b   Müller, Joachim ^a   Gottstein, Bruno ^a   Frey, Caroline F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE TECNOLOGÍA AGROPECUARIA INTA   (Argentina)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

^e FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cat; Cattle; Genotyping; Trichomonads; Tritrichomonas foetus

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAT; CATTLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELONGATION FACTOR 1 ALPHA GENE; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC DIFFERENCE; GENETIC DISTANCE; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC SIMILARITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HOST RANGE; INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER 2 GENE; MARKER GENE; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; PARASITE ISOLATION; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TRITRICHOMONAS; TRITRICHOMONAS FOETUS; TRITRICHOMONAS MOBILENSIS; TRITRICHOMONAS SUIS;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CAT DISEASES; CATS; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; DNA, PROTOZOAN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTOZOAN INFECTIONS, ANIMAL; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRITRICHOMONAS FOETUS;

ANIMALIA; BOS; BOVINAE; FELIDAE; PROTOZOA; TRICHOMONADIDA; TRITRICHOMONAS FOETUS;

EID: 84858279440     PISSN: 03044017     EISSN: 18732550     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetpar.2011.09.032     Document Type: Article

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