Growth and fecundity of Oesophagostomum dentatum in high-level infections and after transplantation into naive pigs

Parasitology Research

Volumn 82, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 364-368

  Christensen, Charlotte M ^a   Barnes, Elizabeth H ^a   Nansen, Peter ^a   Grøndahl Nielsen, Carsten ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FERTILITY; GROWTH; NEMATODIASIS; NONHUMAN; PARASITE DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRONGYLOIDEA; SWINE; TRANSPLANTATION;

ANIMALS; FECES; FEMALE; FERTILITY; MALE; OESOPHAGOSTOMIASIS; OESOPHAGOSTOMUM; PARASITE EGG COUNT; SWINE; SWINE DISEASES;

EID: 0029926144     PISSN: 00443255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004360050127     Document Type: Article

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