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First Report of an Intraerythrocytic Small Piroplasm in Wild Iberian Lynx (Lynx pardinus)
1 Oct 2005
Abstract excerpt
A wild injured Iberian lynx (Lynx pardinus) was taken from the Sierra Morena population. During the health check small intraerythrocytic piroplasms, morphologically indistinguishable from other feline piroplasms, were observed in Wright-Giemsa-stained blood films. Amplification by polymerase chain reaction of a portion of the 18S nuclear small subunit (NSS) rRNA gene and sequencing revealed similarity of the...
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