Large-scale serosurvey of Besnoitia besnoiti in free-living carnivores in Spain

Veterinary Parasitology

Volumn 190, Issue 1-2, 2012, Pages 241-245

  Millán, Javier ^a   Sobrino, Raquel ^b   Rodríguez, Alejandro ^c   Oleaga, álvaro ^b,d   Gortazar, Christian ^b   Schares, Gereon ^e  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIÓN EN RECURSOS CINEGÉTICOS IREC CSIC UCLM JCCM   (Spain)

^c DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

^d Área de Cultivos Hortofrutícolas y Forestales   (Spain)

^e FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Apicomplexa; Carnivora; Life cycle; Sarcocystidae

Indexed keywords

APICOMPLEXA; ARTICLE; BESNOITIA BESNOITI; BESNOITIOSIS; BRADYZOITE; CARNIVORA; CARNIVORE; CAT; COCCIDIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOX; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; NONHUMAN; OOCYST; PARASITE CONTROL; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PROTOZOON; SEROCONVERSION; SEROLOGY; SPAIN; TACHYZOITE; WESTERN BLOTTING; WOLF;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CARNIVORA; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; COCCIDIOSIS; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; HOST SPECIFICITY; SARCOCYSTIDAE; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; SPAIN;

ANIMALIA; APICOMPLEXA; BESNOITIA BESNOITI; BOVINAE; CANIDAE; CANIS LUPUS; CARNIVORA; FELIS CATUS; FELIS SILVESTRIS; GENETTA GENETTA; HERPESTES ICHNEUMON; MARTES MARTES; MELES MELES; PROTOZOA; SARCOCYSTIDAE; VULPES; VULPES VULPES;

EID: 84867140002     PISSN: 03044017     EISSN: 18732550     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetpar.2012.06.014     Document Type: Article

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