Identification of Sarcocystis capracanis in cerebrospinal fluid from sheep with neurological disease

Veterinary Parasitology

Volumn 193, Issue 1-3, 2013, Pages 252-255

  Formisano, P ^a   Aldridge, B ^b   Alony, Y ^b   Beekhuis, L ^b   Davies, E ^b   Del Pozo, J ^a   Dunn, K ^b   English, K ^b   Morrison, L ^a   Sargison, N ^a   Seguino, A ^a   Summers, B A ^b   Wilson, D ^a   Milne, E ^a,c   Beard, P M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL VETERINARY COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^c BIOBEST LABORATORIES LTD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Meningoencephalitis; Neurological; Ovine; Protozoa; Sarcocystis capracanis

Indexed keywords

DEXAMETHASONE; OXYTETRACYCLINE; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; SULFONAMIDE; THIAMINE; TRIMETHOPRIM;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIMICROBIAL THERAPY; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CYST; DNA EXTRACTION; EWE; FEMALE; KERATITIS; MONONUCLEAR CELL; NERVOUS SYSTEM INFLAMMATION; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUTROPHIL COUNT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA 18S GENE; RNA GENE; SARCOCYSTIS; SARCOCYSTIS CAPRACANIS; SARCOCYSTOSIS; SARCOPLASMIC PARASITIC CYST; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SHEEP; STEROID THERAPY; SUFFOLK RAM; UNITED KINGDOM;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; MALE; SARCOCYSTIS; SARCOCYSTOSIS; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASES;

CAPRA HIRCUS; OVIS; OVIS ARIES; PROTOZOA; SARCOCYSTIS CAPRACANIS;

EID: 84873749687     PISSN: 03044017     EISSN: 18732550     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetpar.2012.12.016     Document Type: Article

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