Host age influence on the intensity of experimental Trichuris suis infection in pigs

Parasite

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 75-79

  Pedersen, Soren ^a   Saeed, I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Age related resistance; Pig; Single infection; Trichuris suis; Whipworm

Indexed keywords

SUS SCROFA; TRICHURIS; TRICHURIS SUIS; VERMES;

AGE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CROSS BREEDING; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FEMALE; GERMFREE ANIMAL; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; INTESTINE INFECTION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SUCKLING; SWINE; SWINE DISEASE; TRICHURIASIS; TRICHURIS;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, SUCKLING; CROSSES, GENETIC; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; FEMALE; HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS; INTESTINAL DISEASES, PARASITIC; MALE; SPECIFIC PATHOGEN-FREE ORGANISMS; SWINE; SWINE DISEASES; TRICHURIASIS; TRICHURIS;

EID: 0036516412     PISSN: 1252607X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/parasite/200209175     Document Type: Article

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