Meriones meridianus and Lagurus lagurus as alternative definitive hosts of Echinococcus multilocularis and E. granulosus

Experimental Animals

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 27-32

  Oku, Yuzaburo ^a   Wei, Jiao ^b   Chai, June Jie ^b   Osman, Isrsayil ^b   Wei, Jian ^b   Liao, Li Fu ^b   Asakawa, Mitsuhiko ^c   Hagiwara, Katsuro ^c   Kobayashi, Kimio ^d   Ito, Mamor ^d  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Xinjiang Inst Endemic Dis C   (China)

^c RAKUNO GAKUEN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d CENTRAL INSTITUTE FOR EXPERIMENTAL ANIMALS   (Japan)

Author keywords

Alternative definitive host; Echinococcus; Golden hamster; Lagurus lagurus; Meriones meridianus

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; CESTODA; CRICETINAE; ECHINOCOCCUS GRANULOSUS; ECHINOCOCCUS MULTILOCULARIS; LAGURUS LAGURUS; MERIONES; MERIONES MERIDIANUS; MESOCRICETUS AURATUS;

DRUG DERIVATIVE; PREDNISOLONE; PREDNISOLONE ACETATE; PREDNISOLONE TEBUTATE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISEASE MODEL; ECHINOCOCCOSIS; ECHINOCOCCUS; FEMALE; GERBIL; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HAMSTER; MALE; MURIDAE; PARASITOLOGY; SMALL INTESTINE; SYRIAN HAMSTER;

ANIMALS; CRICETINAE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ECHINOCOCCOSIS; ECHINOCOCCUS; FEMALE; GERBILLINAE; INTESTINE, SMALL; MALE; MESOCRICETUS; MURIDAE; PREDNISOLONE;

EID: 19044376296     PISSN: 13411357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1538/expanim.51.27     Document Type: Article

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