Rotifers ingest Giardia cysts

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 88, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 1038-1040

  Trout, J M ^a   Walsh, E J ^a   Fayer, R ^a  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ISOTHIOCYANIC ACID DERIVATIVE; POLITEF;

INGESTION RATE; PARASITOLOGY; WATER TREATMENT;

ARTICLE; ASPLANCHNIA; BRACHIONUS; CYST; EPIPHANES; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GIARDIA; NONHUMAN; PHASE CONTRAST MICROSCOPY; PHILODINA; PLATIONUS; PLATYIAS; ROTIFERA; WATER CONTAMINATION;

ANIMALIA; ASPLANCHNA; BRACHIONUS; EPIPHANES; EPIPHANES BRACHIONUS; GIARDIA; PHILODINA; PLATIONUS; PLATYIAS; PLATYIAS QUADRICORNIS; PROTOZOA; ROTIFERA;

EID: 0036805106     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1645/0022-3395(2002)088[1038:rigc]2.0.co;2     Document Type: Article

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