Haemoproteus

Parasitic Diseases of Wild Birds

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 11-34

  Atkinson, Carter T ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Avian haemoproteids temperate and tropical climates; Haemoproteus reproduction sexual and asexual; Haemoproteus species pathogenic, causing severe myositis in avian hosts; Haemoproteus, infecting birds vector transmitted intraerythrocytic parasites; Vectors of avian haemoproteids ceratopogonid flies of Culicoides genus and ectoparasitic hippoboscid flies

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862558114     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780813804620.ch2     Document Type: Chapter

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