Development and sexual maturation of Echinococcus vogeli in an alternative definitive host, Mongolian gerbil (Meriones unguiculatus)

Acta Tropica

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 323-330

  Matsuo, Kayoko ^a   Shimizu, Mai ^a   Nonaka, Nariaki ^a   Oku, Yuzaburo ^a   Kamiya, Masao ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Alternative host model; Coproantigen detection; Development; Echinococcus vogeli; Meriones unguiculatus; Mongolian gerbil

Indexed keywords

DISEASE VECTOR; PARASITE; RODENT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIGEN DETECTION; ARTICLE; ECHINOCOCCUS; GERBIL; IMMUNE RESPONSE; NONHUMAN; SEXUAL MATURATION;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, HELMINTH; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ECHINOCOCCOSIS; ECHINOCOCCUS; FECES; GERBILLINAE; INTESTINE, SMALL; PARASITE EGG COUNT;

EID: 0034738016     PISSN: 0001706X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0001-706X(00)00066-8     Document Type: Article

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