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Prevalence of Enterocytozoon bieneusi in post-weaned dairy calves in the eastern United States.
Parasitology research - 1 Jul 2004
Santín Mónica, Trout James M, Fayer Ronald
Abstract excerpt
Fecal specimens were obtained from 3- to 8-month-old post-weaned dairy calves on farms in Vermont, New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, and Florida. After removal of fecal debris by sieving and density gradient centrifugation, 59 of 452 calves (13%) from 11 farms in six states were found positive for Enterocytozoon bieneusi by PCR and DNA sequence analysis. Based on gene sequence data this...
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