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Hammondia isolated from dogs and foxes are genetically distinct.
Parasitology - 1 Feb 2006
Abel J, Schares G, Orzeszko K, Gasser R B, Ellis J T
Abstract excerpt
Hammondia heydorni is regarded as a protozoan parasite that uses canids, e.g. dogs and foxes, as definitive hosts, but clinical signs of infection are rare. This study therefore took advantage of the opportunity to study an oocyst population from the faeces of a dog suffering from intermittent bouts of diarrhoea. Oocysts from the naturally infected dog were shown to be H. heydorni by using the polymerase chain...
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