Pulmonary protostrongyliasis in a mountain hare from Italy

Journal of Wildlife Diseases

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 367-369

  Battisti, Antonio ^a   Di Paolo, Michele ^b   Di Guardo, Giovanni ^a  

^a Ist Zooprofilattico Sperim R   (Italy)

^b NONE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Case report; Helminths; Lepus timidus; Mountain hare; Protostrongylus pulmonalis; Verminous pneumonia

Indexed keywords

LEPUS; LEPUS TIMIDUS; NEMATODA; PROTOSTRONGYLUS; VERMES;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; ITALY; LAGOMORPH; LUNG INFECTION; MALE; METASTRONGYLOIDEA; NEMATODIASIS; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PNEUMONIA;

ANIMALS; ITALY; LAGOMORPHA; LUNG DISEASES, PARASITIC; MALE; METASTRONGYLOIDEA; PNEUMONIA; STRONGYLIDA INFECTIONS;

EID: 0034167172     PISSN: 00903558     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7589/0090-3558-36.2.367     Document Type: Article

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