The expulsion of Echinostoma trivolvis: Worm kinetics and intestinal cytopathology in jirds, Meriones unguiculatus

Comparative Parasitology

Volumn 67, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 236-240

  Fujino, Takahiro ^a   Shinohara, Tomonori ^a   Fukuda, Koichi ^b   Ichikawa, Hidetaka ^c   Nakano, Tomoyuki ^a   Fried, Bernard ^d  

^a YAMAGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL DEFENSE MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

^c KANAZAWA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d LAFAYETTE COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cytopathology; Echinostoma trivolvis; Intestine; Jird; Meriones unguiculatus; SEM; TEM; Worm expulsion; Worm kinetics

Indexed keywords

ECHINOSTOMA TRIVOLVIS; MERIONES UNGUICULATUS;

EID: 0033890173     PISSN: 1049233X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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