Epidemiology of an intestinal parasite (Spirometra spp.) in two populations of African lions (Panthera leo)

Parasitology

Volumn 118, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 407-415

  Muller Graf C D M ^a,b   Woolhouse, M E J ^a,c   Packer, C ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UPMC University Paris 06   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cestode; Spatial heterogeneity; Tanzania; Wildlife discase

Indexed keywords

ALLOENZYME; RAIN;

ARTICLE; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENDER; HETEROZYGOSITY; INTESTINE PARASITE; LION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PARASITOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; TANZANIA;

ANIMALS; CESTODE INFECTIONS; FECES; FEMALE; INTESTINAL DISEASES, PARASITIC; LIONS; MALE; PARASITE EGG COUNT; PREVALENCE; SEASONS; SPIROMETRA; TANZANIA;

CESTODA; PANTHERA LEO; SPIROMETRA;

EID: 0032917910     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0031182098003813     Document Type: Article

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