Neurologic disease attributable to infection with Parelaphostrongylus tenuis in blackbuck antelope

Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association

Volumn 209, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 140-142

  Oliver III, Julian Linwood ^a   Trosclair, Susanne Renee ^b   Morris, James Malcolm ^a   Paulsen, Daniel Blake ^c   Duncan, Dawn Elizabeth ^a   Kim, Dae Yong ^d   Camus, Alvin Cyril ^a   Vicek, Thomas James ^a   Nasarre, Marie Carmen Azara ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Mississippi State University ^*  (United States)

^c MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Seoul National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CHLORAMPHENICOL; ENROFLOXACIN; FENBENDAZOLE; IVERMECTIN; PREDNISOLONE; THIAMINE;

ANTELOPE; ARTICLE; BRAIN INFECTION; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; HELMINTHIASIS; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NONHUMAN;

ANIMALS; ANTELOPES; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; LOUISIANA; MALE; MENINGES; STRONGYLIDA; STRONGYLIDA INFECTIONS;

EID: 0030055946     PISSN: 00031488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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