Zoonotic Onchocerca lupi infection in dogs, Greece and Portugal, 2011-2012

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 19, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 2000-2003

  Otranto, Domenico ^a   Dantas Torres, Filipe ^a,b   Giannelli, Alessio ^a   Latrofa, Maria Stefania ^a   Papadopoulos, Elias ^c   Cardoso, Luís ^d,e   Cortes, Helder ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^b Aggeu Magalhaes Research Center   (Brazil)

^c University of Trás os Montes e Alto Douro ^*

^d UNIVERSITY OF TRÁS OS MONTES AND ALTO DOURO   (Portugal)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ÉVORA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLOOXYGENASE 1; RNA 12S;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; DOG; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GREECE; INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION; MICROFILARIA (NEMATODE LARVA); NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ONCHOCERCA; ONCHOCERCA LUPI; ONCHOCERCIASIS; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PHYLOGENY; PORTUGAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; ZOONOSIS;

DOGS; GREECE; INFECTION; ONCHOCERCA LUPI; PARASITES; PORTUGAL; ZOONOSES;

ANIMALS; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; FEMALE; GENES, HELMINTH; GEOGRAPHY, MEDICAL; GREECE; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ONCHOCERCA; ONCHOCERCIASIS; PHYLOGENY; PORTUGAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; ZOONOSES;

EID: 84888083618     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1912.130264     Document Type: Article

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