Anthelmintic Treatment to Eradicate Cutaneous Capillariasis in a Colony of South African Clawed Frogs (Xenopus laevis)

Laboratory Animal Science

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 477-482

  Iglauer, Franz ^a   Willmann, Frank ^a   Hilken, Gero ^b   Huisinga, Elke ^c   Dimigen, Jens ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

^c Veterinary Clinic for Small Animals   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IVERMECTIN; LEVAMISOLE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; DRUG EFFICACY; NEMATODIASIS; NONHUMAN; OBSERVATION; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; RELAPSE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SKIN INFECTION; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALS; ANTINEMATODAL AGENTS; ANTIPARASITIC AGENTS; CAPILLARIA; ENOPLIDA INFECTIONS; FEMALE; IVERMECTIN; LEVAMISOLE; MALE; SKIN; SKIN DISEASES, PARASITIC; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0031421856     PISSN: 00236764     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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