Insight into the ultrastructural organisation of sporulated oocysts of Eimeria nieschulzi (Coccidia, Apicomplexa)

Parasitology Research

Volumn 111, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 2143-2147

  Seemann, Eric ^a,c   Kurth, Thomas ^b   Entzeroth, Rolf ^a  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b CENTER FOR REGENERATIVE THERAPIES DRESDEN   (Germany)

^c JENA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; APICOMPLEXA; ARTICLE; CELL WALL; COCCIDIA; CRYOPRESERVATION; EIMERIA NIESCHULZI; ELECTRON TOMOGRAPHY; EMBEDDING; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; FREEZING; MICROTUBULE; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; OOCYST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPOROCORD; SPOROCYST; SPOROZOITE; SURVIVAL TIME; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; ULTRASTRUCTURE; UMBILICAL CORD;

EIMERIA; ELECTRON MICROSCOPE TOMOGRAPHY; OOCYSTS;

APICOMPLEXA; COCCIDIA; EIMERIA; EIMERIA NIESCHULZI;

EID: 84868093962     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: 14321955     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-012-3066-8     Document Type: Article

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