Lethal Encephalitozoon cuniculi genotype III infection in Steppe lemmings (Lagurus lagurus)

Veterinary Parasitology

Volumn 205, Issue 1-2, 2014, Pages 357-360

  Hofmannová, Lada ^a   Sak, Bohumil ^b   Jekl, Vladimír ^a   Mináriková, Andrea ^a   Škorič, Miša ^a   Kváč, Martin ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY AND PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCES   (Czech Republic)

^b INSTITUTE OF PARASITOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Encephalitozoon cuniculi genotype III; Histology; Lethal infection; PCR; Steppe lemmings

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL DNA; INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER; RIBOSOME RNA; RIBOSOMAL SPACER DNA;

ADULT; AGGRESSION; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN TISSUE; CANNIBALISM; CONJUNCTIVITIS; ENCEPHALITOZOON CUNICULI; ENCEPHALITOZOONOSIS; FATALITY; FEMALE; FUNGUS SPORE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION; JUVENILE ANIMAL; KIDNEY PARENCHYMA; LAGURUS LAGURUS; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE LOCALIZATION; PARESIS; PET ANIMAL; RNA GENE; RODENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TIME OF DEATH; WEIGHT REDUCTION; ANIMAL; ARVICOLINAE; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PARASITOLOGY; RABBIT; VETERINARY;

ANIMALIA; AVES; CANIS FAMILIARIS; ENCEPHALITOZOON; ENCEPHALITOZOON CUNICULI; INVERTEBRATA; LAGURUS LAGURUS; MICROSPORIDIA; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; RODENTIA; SAGUINUS IMPERATOR; SUIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; ARVICOLINAE; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; ENCEPHALITOZOON CUNICULI; ENCEPHALITOZOONOSIS; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; MALE; PETS; RABBITS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84906938109     PISSN: 03044017     EISSN: 18732550     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetpar.2014.07.008     Document Type: Article

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