Massive Dracunculus insignis infection in a dog

Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association

Volumn 214, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 366-368

  Beyer, Tamara A ^a   Pinckney, Rhonda D ^b   Cooley, A James ^b  

^a Beechwood Veterinary Clinic   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DOG; DOG DISEASE; DRACUNCULIASIS; DRACUNCULUS; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PARASITIC SKIN DISEASE; PARASITOLOGY;

ANIMALS; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; DRACUNCULIASIS; DRACUNCULUS NEMATODE; FEMALE; SKIN DISEASES, PARASITIC;

EID: 0033074078     PISSN: 00031488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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