Effects of tonicity, digestive enzymes and bile salts, and nutrient media on the survival of excysted metacercariae of Echinostoma caproni

Parasitology Research

Volumn 93, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 1-4

  Fried, Bernard ^a   Schneck, Jessica L ^a   Ponder, Elizabeth L ^a  

^a LAFAYETTE COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BILE SALT; GLUCOSE; INTESTINE ENZYME; PEPSIN A; PROLINE; SERINE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; THREONINE; TRYPSIN;

ARTICLE; ECHINOSTOMA; ECHINOSTOMA CAPRONI; EGG YOLK; INTESTINE MUCOSA; LARVAL STAGE; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT; PARASITE SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMALL INTESTINE; STOMACH;

ANIMALS; BILE ACIDS AND SALTS; CULTURE MEDIA; ECHINOSTOMA; OSMOLAR CONCENTRATION; PEPSIN A; TRYPSIN;

ECHINOSTOMA; ECHINOSTOMA CAPRONI;

EID: 2942709949     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-004-1091-y     Document Type: Article

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