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SUBMITTER: French AF
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7066032 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
French Adrienne F AF Castillo-Alcala Fernanda F Gedye Kristene R KR Roe Wendi D WD Gartrell Brett D BD
International journal for parasitology. Parasites and wildlife 20200224
Sporadic cases of visceral and neural nematode <i>larva migrans</i> have been diagnosed at necropsy in the endangered New Zealand kiwi (<i>Apteryx</i> spp.), but the causative organisms have not yet been definitively identified. From an initial group of five affected kiwi, PCR was performed on DNA extracted from archival formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded tissue sections in which larval nematodes had been histologically identified. Sequencing of positive results from four out of the five kiwi alig ...[more]