Population dynamics of Toxocara canis in pigs receiving a single or multiple infection

Parasitology

Volumn 127, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 593-602

  Taira, K ^a   Saeed, I ^a   Lind, P ^b   Murrell, K D ^a   Kapel, C M O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Challenge; Larva migrans; Pig; Population dynamics; Toxocara canis; Zoonoses

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; EOSINOPHIL; EXPERIMENTAL INFECTION; EYE; FEMALE; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNITY; LARVA; LUNG PARENCHYMA; MALE; MUSCLE; NONHUMAN; PARASITOSIS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRIMARY INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROVOCATION TEST; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SWINE; TOXOCARA CANIS; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, HELMINTH; FECES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER; LUNG; LYMPH NODES; MALE; PARASITE EGG COUNT; SPECIFIC PATHOGEN-FREE ORGANISMS; SWINE; SWINE DISEASES; TOXOCARA CANIS; TOXOCARIASIS; ZOONOSES;

ANIMALIA; CANIS; NEMATODA; SUIDAE; SUS SCROFA; TOXOCARA; TOXOCARA CANIS; VERMES;

EID: 0346496051     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0031182003004074     Document Type: Article

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