Gastrointestinal helminths of arctic foxes (Alopex lagopus) from different bioclimatological regions in Greenland

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 82, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 17-24

  Kapel, C M O ^a   Nansen, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; ASCARIDOIDEA; DIPHYLLOBOTHRIUM; FOX; GASTROINTESTINAL INFECTION; HELMINTH; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; MESOCESTOIDEA; NONHUMAN; PARASITOSIS; PREVALENCE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STRONGYLOIDES STERCORALIS;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; FOXES; GREENLAND; HELMINTHIASIS; HELMINTHIASIS, ANIMAL; HELMINTHS; INTESTINAL DISEASES, PARASITIC; INTESTINE, SMALL; MALE; PREVALENCE;

ALOPEX LAGOPUS; ANIMALIA; ASCARIDOIDEA; CANIDAE; CRYPTOCOTYLE; CYCLOPHYLLIDEA; DIPHYLLOBOTHRIUM; DIPHYLLOBOTHRIUM DENDRITICUM; LAGOPUS; MESOCESTOIDES LINEATUS; OVIS; PLAGIORCHIS ELEGANS; POLYMORPHUS SP.; RODENTIA; STRONGYLOIDES STERCORALIS; TAENIA OVIS; TOXASCARIS LEONINA; VERMES; VULPES;

EID: 0029942485     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3284109     Document Type: Article

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