Strongyloides stercoralis: High worm population density leads to autoinfection in the jird (Meriones unguiculatus)

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 100, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 173-178

  Nolan, Thomas J ^a   Bhopale, Veena M ^a   Rotman, Harris L ^b   Abraham, David ^b   Schad, Gerhard A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA SCHOOL OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (United States)

^b THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; GERBIL; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INTESTINE MOTILITY; LARVAL STAGE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRONGYLOIDES STERCORALIS; STRONGYLOIDIASIS;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GERBILLINAE; HUMANS; INTESTINAL DISEASES, PARASITIC; INTESTINES; LARVA; MALE; POPULATION DENSITY; STRONGYLOIDES STERCORALIS; STRONGYLOIDIASIS; VIRULENCE;

GERBILLINAE; MERIONES; MERIONES UNGUICULATUS; STRONGYLOIDES; STRONGYLOIDES STERCORALIS;

EID: 0036525513     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0014-4894(02)00014-0     Document Type: Article

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