Morphology of chimpanzee pinworms, Enterobius (Enterobius) anthropopitheci (Gedoelst, 1916) (Nematoda: Oxyuridae), collected from chimpanzees, Pan troglodytes, on Rubondo Island, Tanzania

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 91, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1314-1317

  Hasegawa, Hideo ^a   Ikeda, Yatsukaho ^a   Fujisaki, Akiko ^a   Moscovice, Liza R ^a,b   Petrzelkova, Klara J ^a,c   Kaur, Taranjit ^a,d   Huffman, Michael A ^a,e  

^a OITA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE BIOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^d VIRGINIA MARYLAND REGIONAL COLLEGE OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (United States)

^e KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PARASITE;

ARTICLE; CHIMPANZEE; EGG SHELL; ENTEROBIUS; ENTEROBIUS ANTHROPOPITHECI; ENTEROBIUS VERMICULARIS; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITE ISOLATION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SEX DETERMINATION; TANZANIA; TAXONOMY;

ANIMALS; APE DISEASES; ENTEROBIASIS; ENTEROBIUS; FECES; FEMALE; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; OVUM; PAN TROGLODYTES; TANZANIA;

ENTEROBIUS; ENTEROBIUS VERMICULARIS; NEMATODA; OXYURIDAE; PAN; PAN TROGLODYTES;

EID: 32544457727     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1645/GE-569R.1     Document Type: Article

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