Patterns of the tapeworm Raillietina trapezoides infection in the fat sand rat Psammomys obesus in Tunisia: Season, climatic conditions, host age and crowding effects

Parasitology

Volumn 126, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 481-492

  Fichet Calvet, E ^a,c   Wang, Juefei ^a   Jomaa I ^b   Ben Ismail, R ^b   Ashford, R W ^a  

^a LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b PASTEUR INSTITUTE OF TUNIS   (Tunisia)

^c MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

Author keywords

Parasite burden; Population structure; Prevalence; Psammomys obesus; Raillietina trapezoides; Temporal dynamics

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BIOMASS; CLIMATE CHANGE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROWDING; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; INFESTATION; NONHUMAN; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOZOAL INFECTION; PSAMMOMYS OBESUS; RAT; SEASONAL VARIATION; TUNISIA;

AGING; ANIMALS; CESTODA; CESTODE INFECTIONS; CLIMATE; FEMALE; GERBILLINAE; HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS; MALE; POPULATION DENSITY; PREVALENCE; SEASONS; SEX FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; CESTODA; PSAMMOMYS OBESUS; RAILLIETINA; RODENTIA;

EID: 0037679393     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0031182003003056     Document Type: Article

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