Diversity of microsporidia, cryptosporidium and Giardia in mountain gorillas (Gorilla beringei beringei) in Volcanoes National Park, Rwanda

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 2014, Pages

  Sak, Bohumil ^a   Petrželková, Klara J ^a,b,c,d   Květoňová, Dana ^a   Mynářová, Anna ^e   Pomajbíková, Kateřina ^d   Modrý, David ^a,d,f   Cranfield, Michael R ^g   Mudakikwa, Antoine ^h   Kváč, Martin ^a,e  

^a INSTITUTE OF PARASITOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^b INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE BIOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^c Liberec Zoo   (Czech Republic)

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

^e UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

^f CENTRAL EUROPEAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^h Rwanda Development Board   (Rwanda)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM MELEAGRIDIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM MURIS; DNA EXTRACTION; ENCEPHALITOZOON CUNICULI; ENTEROCYTOZOON; ENTEROCYTOZOON INFECTION; FECES ANALYSIS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOTYPE; GIARDIA; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; GIARDIASIS; GORILLA; GORILLA BERINGEI BERINGEI; HABITUATION; MICROSPORIDIA; MICROSPORIDIOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; RWANDA; TOURISM; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; ZOONOSIS; ANIMAL; APE DISEASES; CLASSIFICATION; ENCEPHALITOZOON; ENCEPHALITOZOONOSIS; GENETICS; HOMINID; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PARASITOLOGY; RECREATIONAL PARK; ZOONOSES;

CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; GIARDIA; GORILLA GORILLA BERINGEI; MICROSPORIDIA;

SPACER DNA;

ANIMALS; APE DISEASES; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; DNA, INTERGENIC; ENCEPHALITOZOON; ENCEPHALITOZOONOSIS; GIARDIA; GIARDIASIS; HOMINIDAE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PARKS, RECREATIONAL; PHYLOGENY; RWANDA; ZOONOSES;

EID: 84915750703     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0109751     Document Type: Article

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