Behavioural strategies used by the hookworms Necator americanus and Ancylostoma duodenale to find, recognize and invade the human host

Parasitology Research

Volumn 95, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 30-39

  Haas, Wilfried ^a   Haberl, Bernhard ^a   Syafruddin, ^b   Idris, Irfan ^b   Kallert, Dennis ^a   Kersten, Stephanie ^a   Stiegeler, Petra ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b Hassanuddin University   (Indonesia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGAR; AMINO ACID; CARBON DIOXIDE; FATTY ACID; GLUCOSE; RINGER SOLUTION;

ANCYLOSTOMA DUODENALE; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENERGY CONSERVATION; HOOKWORM; HUMAN; LARVA; LOCOMOTION; MOUTH INFECTION; NECATOR AMERICANUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHISTOSOMA; SKIN PENETRATION; SPECIES INVASION; TOUCH; VIBRATION;

ANCYLOSTOMA; ANCYLOSTOMIASIS; ANIMALS; FECES; HEAT; HUMANS; LARVA; LIGHT; MOVEMENT; NECATOR AMERICANUS; NECATORIASIS; SKIN; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VIBRATION; WATER;

ANCYLOSTOMA; ANCYLOSTOMA DUODENALE; ANCYLOSTOMATOIDEA; NECATOR AMERICANUS; SCHISTOSOMA;

EID: 12444278994     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-004-1257-7     Document Type: Article

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