Trichomonads in birds-a review

Parasitology

Volumn 141, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 733-747

  Amin, Aziza ^a,b   Bilic, Ivana ^a   Liebhart, Dieter ^a   Hess, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

^b Benha University   (Egypt)

Author keywords

diagnostics; epidemiology and transmission; genetics; morphology; pathogenicity; review; Tetratrichomonas gallinarum; treatment; Trichomonas gallinae

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; NUCLEIC ACID; IMIDAZOLE DERIVATIVE;

AUTOPSY; BIRD; BIRD DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MICROSCOPY; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID ANALYSIS; PARASITE CULTIVATION; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STAINING; TETRATRICHOMONAS GALLINARUM; TRICHOMONADIDA; TRICHOMONAS GALLINAE; TRICHOMONIASIS; ANIMAL; BIRD DISEASES; DRUG RESISTANCE; GENETICS; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; SONGBIRD; TRICHOMONAS; TRICHOMONAS INFECTIONS; VETERINARY;

ANIMALS; BIRD DISEASES; BIRDS; DRUG RESISTANCE; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; IMIDAZOLES; PASSERIFORMES; TRICHOMONAS; TRICHOMONAS INFECTIONS;

EID: 84898453571     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: 14698161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0031182013002096     Document Type: Review

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