Enterocytozoon bieneusi and encephalitozoon cuniculi in horses kept under different management systems in the czech republic

Veterinary Parasitology

Volumn 190, Issue 3-4, 2012, Pages 573-577

  Wagnerová, Pavla ^a,b   Sak, Bohumil ^b   Květoňová, Dana ^b   Buňatová, Zita ^a   Civišová, Hana ^a   Maršálek, Miroslav ^a   Kváč, Martin ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

^b INSTITUTE OF PARASITOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Encephalitozoon cuniculi; Enterocytozoon bieneusi; Horse; ITS; Natural infection; PCR

Indexed keywords

AGE; ANIMAL HOUSING; ARTICLE; CZECH REPUBLIC; ENCEPHALITOZOON CUNICULI; ENCEPHALITOZOONOSIS; ENTEROCYTOZOON; ENTEROCYTOZOON INFECTION; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FUNGAL DETECTION; FUNGUS IDENTIFICATION; GELDING; GENOTYPE; HORSE; HOST RANGE; INFECTION RATE; MALE; MARE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PREVALENCE; STALLION;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; CZECH REPUBLIC; ENCEPHALITOZOON CUNICULI; ENCEPHALITOZOONOSIS; ENTEROCYTOZOON; FEMALE; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; MALE; MICROSPORIDIOSIS; PHYLOGENY;

ENCEPHALITOZOON CUNICULI; ENTEROCYTOZOON BIENEUSI; EQUIDAE; MICROSPORIDIA; SUIDAE;

EID: 84868200217     PISSN: 03044017     EISSN: 18732550     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetpar.2012.07.013     Document Type: Article

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