Experimental fascioliasis in the rat-like hamster, Tscherskia triton, and other rodent hosts

Parasitology International

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 147-154

  Terasaki, Kunio ^a   Noda, Yasutaka ^b   Shibahara, Toshiyuki ^c   Itagaki, Tadashi ^d   Fukuda, Koichi ^e   Tsuchiya, Kimiyuki ^f  

^a ST MARY S COLLEGE   (Japan)

^b Nishinihon Rehabilitation School   (Japan)

^c TOTTORI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d IWATE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e NATIONAL DEFENSE MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

^f Faculty of Agriculture   (Japan)

Author keywords

Artificial infection; Fasciola; Parthenogenetic Fasciola sp.; Prepatent period; Rat like hamster; Susceptibility; Tscherskia triton

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CERCARIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL TEST; FASCIOLA GIGANTICA; FASCIOLA HEPATICA; FASCIOLIASIS; HAMSTER; HOST; NONHUMAN; PARTHENOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; RAT; RAT STRAIN; RODENT; TREMATODE;

ANIMALIA; CRICETINAE; DIGENEA (FLUKES); FASCIOLA; FASCIOLA GIGANTICA; FASCIOLA HEPATICA; FASCIOLA SP.; GOSSYPIUM HIRSUTUM; HEPATICA; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; RODENTIA; SIGMODON; SIGMODON HISPIDUS; TSCHERSKIA TRITON;

EID: 0037528833     PISSN: 13835769     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1383-5769(03)00004-7     Document Type: Article

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