Effect of tribendimidine on adult Echinostoma caproni harbored in mice, including scanning electron microscopic observations

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 92, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 858-862

  Keiser, Jennifer ^a   Shu Hua, Xiao ^a,b   Utzinger, Jürg ^a  

^a SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b CHINESE CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHELMINTIC AGENT; TRIBENDIMIDINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

DISEASE TREATMENT; DRUG; FLATWORM; MORBIDITY; PARASITE; PUBLIC HEALTH; RODENT; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOSE RESPONSE; ECHINOSTOMA; ECHINOSTOMA CAPRONI; FEMALE; FOOD CONTAMINATION; INFECTION RISK; INTESTINE NECROSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; TREMATODIASIS;

ANIMALS; ANTIPLATYHELMINTIC AGENTS; BIOMPHALARIA; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ECHINOSTOMA; ECHINOSTOMIASIS; FEMALE; MICE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; PHENYLENEDIAMINES;

ANIMALIA; ECHINOSTOMA CAPRONI; TREMATODA;

EID: 33748925358     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1645/GE-793R.1     Document Type: Article

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