Helminth infections in Apodemus sylvaticus in southern England: Interactive effects of host age, sex and year on the prevalence and abundance of infections

Journal of Helminthology

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 31-44

  Behnke, J M ^a   Lewis, J W ^b   Zain, S N Mohd ^b   Gilbert, F S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; CESTODE; FEMALE; HELIGMOSOMOIDES; HELMINTHIASIS; HOST; MALE; MOUSE; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE PREVALENCE; TAENIA TAENIAEFORMIS; TREMATODE; TRICHURIS; UNITED KINGDOM;

APODEMUS SYLVATICUS; BRACHYLAEMUS; BRACHYLAEMUS RECURVUM; CAPILLARIA; CAPILLARIA MURISSYLVATICI; CESTODA; CORRIGIA; CORRIGIA VITTA; HELIGMOSOMOIDES POLYGYRUS; MICROSOMACANTHUS; MICROSOMACANTHUS CRENATA; NEMATODA; PELODERA STRONGYLOIDES; RODENTIA; STRONGYLOIDES; SYPHACIA; SYPHACIA STROMA; TAENIA TAENIAEFORMIS; TREMATODA; TRICHURIS; TRICHURIS MURIS; VERMES;

EID: 0033042240     PISSN: 0022149X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0022149x99000049     Document Type: Article

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