Insights into the epidemiology and genetic make-up of Oesophagostomum bifurcum from human and non-human primates using molecular tools

Parasitology

Volumn 132, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 453-460

  Gasser, R B ^a,b   De Gruijter, J M ^a,c   Polderman, A M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Control; Diagnosis; Epidemiology; Genetics; Human; Molecular tools; Oesophagostomiasis; Oesophagostomum bifurcum

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GHANA; HUMAN; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NEMATODIASIS; NONHUMAN; OESOPHAGOSTOMUM BIFURCUM; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; STRONGYLOIDEA; TOGO;

ANIMALS; CERCOPITHECUS; COLOBUS; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; FEMALE; GENES, HELMINTH; GHANA; HUMANS; MALE; MONKEY DISEASES; OESOPHAGOSTOMIASIS; OESOPHAGOSTOMUM; PAPIO ANUBIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TOGO; VARIATION (GENETICS);

NEMATODA; OESOPHAGOSTOMUM BIFURCUM; PRIMATES; STRONGYLIDA; STRONGYLOIDEA;

EID: 33645325684     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: 14698161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0031182005009406     Document Type: Review

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