Onchocerca ochengi infections in cattle as a model for human onchocerciasis: Recent developments

Parasitology

Volumn 120, Issue SUPPL., 2000, Pages

  Trees, A J ^a   Graham, S P ^a   Renz, A ^b   Bianco, A E ^a   Tanya, V ^c  

^a LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

^c Inst de Rech Agric pour le D   (Cameroon)

Author keywords

Onchocerca ochengi; Onchocerciasis

Indexed keywords

ANTINEMATODAL AGENT; AVERMECTIN; IVERMECTIN; MILBEMYCIN; MOXIDECTIN; OXYTETRACYCLINE; SURAMIN; VACCINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CATTLE DISEASE; DRUG EFFICACY; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNITY; IMMUNIZATION; LARVA; NONHUMAN; ONCHOCERCA; ONCHOCERCIASIS; PARASITE CONTROL; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALIA; BOS TAURUS; BOVINAE; NEMATODA; ONCHOCERCA OCHENGI; ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS; PAN (APE); WOLBACHIA;

EID: 0034115529     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0031182099005788     Document Type: Article

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