Diseases

Coccidiosis

Protozoan infection found in animals and man. It is caused by several different genera of COCCIDIA.

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Abstract

Protozoan infection found in animals and man. It is caused by several different genera of COCCIDIA.

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5 entry terms
  • Coccidioses
  • Besnoitiasis
  • Besnoitiosis
  • Besnoitiases
  • Besnoitioses

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Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, congenital, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, embryology, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, radiotherapy, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, transmission, urine, veterinary, virology.

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Indexing Annotation

protozoan infect caused by COCCIDIA, not COCCIDIOIDES; /drug ther: consider also COCCIDIOSTATS

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History Note

1995; for BESNOITIASIS use PROTOZOAN INFECTIONS 1985-1994, was heading 1968-1984; for EIMERIA INFECTIONS & ISOSPORA INFECTIONS use COCCIDIOSIS 1975-1991, use COCCIDIOSIS 1967-1974

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Coccidiosis. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D003048. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D003048
  2. Coccidiosis. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coccidiosis
  3. Coccidiosis. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q487837