Haemoproteus minutus and Haemoproteus belopolskyi (Haemoproteidae): Complete sporogony in the biting midge Culicoides impunctatus (Ceratopogonidae), with implications on epidemiology of haemoproteosis

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 145, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 74-79

  Žiegyte, Rita ^a   Palinauskas, Vaidas ^a   Bernotiene, Rasa ^a   Iezhova, Tatjana A ^a   Valkiunas, Gediminas ^a  

^a Nature Research Centre   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

Culicoides; Epidemiology; Haemoproteus; Haemosporidian parasite; Sporogony; Transmission

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLACKBIRD; CELL LINEAGE; CERATOPOGONIDAE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULICOIDES IMPUNCTATUS; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; GAMETOCYTE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HAEMOPROTEUS; HAEMOPROTEUS BELOPOLSKYI; HAEMOPROTEUS MINUTUS; HEMOPROTEOSIS; MICROSCOPY; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PARASITOSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPOROGENESIS; SPOROZOITE; ANIMAL; BIRD DISEASES; DISEASE CARRIER; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HAEMOSPORIDA; LITHUANIA; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTOZOAN INFECTIONS, ANIMAL; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SONGBIRD; TRANSMISSION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APICOMPLEXAN LIFE CYCLE STAGE; BIRD; DIPTERA; EXPOSURE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC LINE; HIPPOLAIS ICTERINA; MIDGUT; OOCYST; OOKINETE; PARASITE DEVELOPMENT; PARASITE EXAMINATION; PARASITE LOAD; SALIVARY GLAND;

ANIMALS; BIRD DISEASES; CERATOPOGONIDAE; FEMALE; HAEMOSPORIDA; INSECT VECTORS; LITHUANIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTOZOAN INFECTIONS, ANIMAL; RUSSIA; SONGBIRDS;

EID: 84908520728     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: 10902449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exppara.2014.07.014     Document Type: Article

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