Advances in developing molecular-diagnostic tools for strongyloid nematodes of equids: Fundamental and applied implications

Molecular and Cellular Probes

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 3-16

  Gasser, Robin B ^a   Hung, Guo Chiuan ^a,b   Chilton, Neil B ^a,c   Beveridge, Ian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b PENN STATE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Classification; Control; Cyathostominae; Diagnosis; Epidemiology; Evolution; Horse strongyles; Larval cyathostominosis; Nematoda (Strongylida); Pathogenesis; Strongylinae; Systematics

Indexed keywords

ANTINEMATODAL AGENT; BENZIMIDAZOLE DERIVATIVE; CAMBENDAZOLE; FENBENDAZOLE; IVERMECTIN; LACTONE DERIVATIVE; MOXIDECTIN; OXIBENDAZOLE; PYRANTEL; TIABENDAZOLE;

CROSS REACTION; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DNA DETERMINATION; DRUG INDICATION; FECES ANALYSIS; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC TRAIT; HORSE; HUMAN; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; LARVAL STAGE; MICROMORPHOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NEMATODIASIS; NONHUMAN; PARASITE CONTROL; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITE PREVALENCE; PARASITE VIRULENCE; PREVENTIVE MEDICINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPECIES COMPARISON; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SQUID; STRONGYLOIDEA;

CYATHOSTOMINAE; EQUIDAE; EQUUS CABALLUS; NEMATODA; STRONGYLIDA; STRONGYLOIDEA;

EID: 1242341322     PISSN: 08908508     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mcp.2003.10.001     Document Type: Review

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