Survey of Spirometra erinaceieuropaei in frogs in Taiwan and its experimental infection in cats

Journal of Helminthology

Volumn 74, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 173-176

  Ooi, H K ^a   Chang, S L ^a   Huang, C C ^a   Kawakami, Y ^b   Uchida, A ^b  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG HSING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b AZABU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACK MUSCLE; CAT; CESTODIASIS; EXPERIMENTAL INFECTION; FECES ANALYSIS; FROG; NONHUMAN; PARASITE CULTIVATION; SPIROMETRA; TAIWAN; THIGH;

ANIMALIA; ANURA; BUERGERIA; CESTODA; FEJERVARYA LIMNOCHARIS; FELIS CATUS; RANA LATOUCHII; SPIROMETRA ERINACEIEUROPAEI;

EID: 0033934133     PISSN: 0022149X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022149X0000024X     Document Type: Article

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