Epidemiological aspects on vector-borne infections in stray and pet dogs from Romania and Hungary with focus on Babesia spp.

Parasitology Research

Volumn 110, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1537-1545

  Hamel, Dietmar ^a   Silaghi, Cornelia ^a   Lescai, Daniel ^b   Pfister, Kurt ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b Salvavet Animal Hospital   (Romania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACANTHOCHEILONEMA RECONDITUM; ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ARTICLE; BABESIA; BABESIA CANIS CANIS; BABESIA CANIS VOGELI; BABESIA FELIS; BABESIA GIBSONI; BABESIOSIS; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIROFILARIA IMMITIS; DIROFILARIA REPENS; DOG; GERMANY; HEMATOLOGY; HEPATOZOON CANIS; HUNGARY; LEISHMANIA; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MYCOPLASMA HAEMOCANIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PET ANIMAL; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROMANIA; SEROLOGY; STRAY DOG;

ANAPLASMA; ANIMALS; BABESIA; DIPETALONEMA; DIROFILARIA IMMITIS; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; FEMALE; GERMANY; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUNGARY; LEISHMANIA; MALE; MYCOPLASMA; PARASITIC DISEASES, ANIMAL; ROMANIA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ACANTHOCHEILONEMA RECONDITUM; ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ANIMALIA; ARTHROPODA; BABESIA; BABESIA CANIS CANIS; BABESIA CANIS VOGELI; BABESIA FELIS; BABESIA GIBSONI; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CANIS FAMILIARIS; DIROFILARIA IMMITIS; DIROFILARIA REPENS; HEPATOZOON CANIS; MYCOPLASMA HAEMOCANIS;

EID: 84863457120     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: 14321955     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-011-2659-y     Document Type: Article

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