Pigs become infected after ingestion of livers and lungs from chickens infected with Ascaris of pig origin

International Journal for Parasitology

Volumn 30, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 867-868

  Permin, A ^a   Henningsen, E ^a   Murrell, K D ^b   Roepstorff, A ^a   Nansen, P ^a  

^a Danish Ctr for Exp Parasitology   (Denmark)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Ascaris suum; Raw chicken liver; Visceral larva migrans; Zoonoses

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASCARIS SUUM; CHICKEN; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEEDING; FEMALE; LIVER; NONHUMAN; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; SWINE; VISCERAL LARVA MIGRANS SYNDROME;

ANIMALS; ASCARIASIS; ASCARIS SUUM; CHICKENS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER; LUNG; POULTRY DISEASES; SWINE; SWINE DISEASES; ZOONOSES;

ASCARIS; ASCARIS SUUM; GALLUS GALLUS; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 0034210704     PISSN: 00207519     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0020-7519(00)00065-5     Document Type: Article

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