Human pinworms collected from a chimpanzee, Pan troglodytes, in a zoo of Okinawa, Japan

Journal of the Helminthological Society of Washington

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 272-275

  Hasegawa, Hideo ^a   Kinjo, Teruo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

Author keywords

chimpanzee; Enterobius gregorii; Enterobius vermicularis; morphology; zoo

Indexed keywords

CHIMPANZEE; ENTEROBIUS; ENTEROBIUS VERMICULARIS; HUMAN; JAPAN; MALE; MATURATION; MOLTING; MORPHOLOGY; NEMATODE; PAN TROGLODYTES; SPECIES;

ENTEROBIUS GREGORII; ENTEROBIUS VERMICULARIS; NEMATODA; OXYURIDAE; PAN TROGLODYTES; TROGLODYTES;

EID: 0029739439     PISSN: 1049233X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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