Leucocytozoon fringillinarum and leucocytozoon dubreuili in turdus fuscater from a colombian páramo ecosystem

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 99, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 359-362

  Lotta, Ingrid A ^a   Matta, Nubia E ^a   Torres, Rubén D ^a   Sandino, Martha Moreno De ^a   Moncada, Ligia I ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE COLOMBIA   (Colombia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME B;

BLOOD; CYTOCHROME; DISEASE VECTOR; HISTOPATHOLOGY; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; NEARCTIC ECOZONE; NEOTROPIC ECOZONE; PARAMO; PARASITE PREVALENCE; PASSERINE; PROTOZOAN;

ARTICLE; BIRD; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BLOOD SMEAR; COLOMBIA; ECOSYSTEM; GAMETOCYTE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; LEUCOCYTOZOON DUBREUILI; LEUCOCYTOZOON FRINGILLINARUM; NEOTROPICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TURDUS FUSCATER;

ANIMALS; ASYMPTOMATIC DISEASES; BIRD DISEASES; COLOMBIA; ECOSYSTEM; HAEMOSPORIDA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PARASITEMIA; PREVALENCE; PROTOZOAN INFECTIONS, ANIMAL; SONGBIRDS;

COLOMBIA;

AVES; LEUCOCYTOZOON; LEUCOCYTOZOON DUBREULI; LEUCOCYTOZOON FRINGILLINARUM; TURDUS FUSCATER;

EID: 84876740333     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: 19372345     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1645/GE-3156.1     Document Type: Article

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