A preliminary investigation on the gastrointestinal helminths of the Barbados green monkey, Cercopithecus aethiops sabaeus

Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 193-195

  Mutani, Alex ^a   Rhynd, Kamara ^a   Brown, Gabriel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Trinidad and Tobago)

Author keywords

Barbados; Cercopithecus gastrointestinal helminths

Indexed keywords

ZINC SULFATE;

AGE; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; ASCARIS; BARBADOS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXAMINATION; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HELMINTH; HOOKWORM; INFECTION RATE; MALE; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; OBSERVATION; PARASITE; PARASITISM; PREVALENCE; SAMPLE; SEX; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STRONGYLOIDEA; STRONGYLOIDES; TRICHOSTRONGYLUS; TRICHURIS;

EID: 0041692671     PISSN: 00364665     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0036-46652003000400003     Document Type: Article

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