Infrapopulation dynamics of a wild strain of Taenia crassiceps (WFU) (Cestoda: Taeniidae) in BALB/cJ mice

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 90, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 79-84

  Everhart, Mary E ^a   Kuhn, Raymond E ^a   Zelmer, Derek A ^a,b  

^a WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EMPORIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PARASITOLOGY;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CESTODE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; FEMALE; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INOCULATION; LARVA; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCTION; TAENIA CRASSICEPS;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; FEMALE; HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PEROMYSCUS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TAENIA; TAENIASIS;

ANIMALIA; CESTODA; RODENTIA; TAENIA; TAENIA CRASSICEPS; TAENIIDAE;

EID: 1442348371     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1645/GE-3255     Document Type: Article

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