Occurrence of tissue cyst forming coccidia in Magellanic penguins (Spheniscus magellanicus) rescued on the coast of Brazil

Igor Cunha Lima Acosta; Rodrigo Martins Soares; Luis Felipe Silva Pereira Mayorga; Bruna Farias Alves; Herbert Sousa Soares; Solange Maria Gennari

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0209007

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Occurrence of tissue cyst forming coccidia in Magellanic penguins (Spheniscus magellanicus) rescued on the coast of Brazil

Igor Cunha Lima Acosta,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Departamento de Medicina Veterinária Preventiva e Saúde Animal, Faculdade de Medicina Veterinária e Zootecnia, Universidade de São Paulo–USP, São Paulo, SP, Brasil
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Rodrigo Martins Soares,

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Departamento de Medicina Veterinária Preventiva e Saúde Animal, Faculdade de Medicina Veterinária e Zootecnia, Universidade de São Paulo–USP, São Paulo, SP, Brasil
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Luis Felipe Silva Pereira Mayorga,

Roles Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Instituto de Pesquisa e Reabilitação de Animais Marinhos—IPRAM, Cariacica, ES, Brasil
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Bruna Farias Alves,

Roles Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Departamento de Medicina Veterinária Preventiva e Saúde Animal, Faculdade de Medicina Veterinária e Zootecnia, Universidade de São Paulo–USP, São Paulo, SP, Brasil
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Herbert Sousa Soares,

Roles Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Departamento de Medicina Veterinária Preventiva e Saúde Animal, Faculdade de Medicina Veterinária e Zootecnia, Universidade de São Paulo–USP, São Paulo, SP, Brasil
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Solange Maria Gennari

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: sgennari@usp.br

Affiliations Departamento de Medicina Veterinária Preventiva e Saúde Animal, Faculdade de Medicina Veterinária e Zootecnia, Universidade de São Paulo–USP, São Paulo, SP, Brasil, Mestrado em Medicina e Bem estar animal, Universidade Santo Amaro, Av. Prof. Eneas de Siqueira Neto, São Paulo, Brazil
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Occurrence of tissue cyst forming coccidia in Magellanic penguins (Spheniscus magellanicus) rescued on the coast of Brazil

Igor Cunha Lima Acosta,
Rodrigo Martins Soares,
Luis Felipe Silva Pereira Mayorga,
Bruna Farias Alves,
Herbert Sousa Soares,
Solange Maria Gennari

Published: December 18, 2018
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0209007

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