Population distribution and zoonotic potential of gastrointestinal helminths of wild rats Rattus rattus and R. norvegicus from Jamaica

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 92, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1014-1018

  Waugh, Cecelia A ^a   Lindo, John F ^a   Foronda, Pilar ^a,b   Ángeles Santana, María ^a,b   Lorerszo Morales, Jacob ^a,b   Robinson, Ralph D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE LA LAGUNA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; PARASITIC DISEASE; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; RODENT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CESTODIASIS; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL INFECTION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HELMINTHIASIS; HYMENOLEPIS DIMINUTA; INFECTION RISK; JAMAICA; MALE; MONILIFORMIS; MONILIFORMIS MONILIFORMIS; NIPPOSTRONGYLUS BRASILIENSIS; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PREDICTION; PROTOSPIRURA MURICOLA; RAILLIETINA; RAT; RICTULARIA; RISK FACTOR; SPECIES COMPARISON; STRONGYLOIDES RATTI; STRONGYLOIDIASIS; SYPHACIA OBVELATA; TRICHURIASIS; TRICHURIS; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; FEMALE; HELMINTHIASIS, ANIMAL; HELMINTHS; HUMANS; INTESTINAL DISEASES, PARASITIC; JAMAICA; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; PREVALENCE; RATS; RODENT DISEASES; ZOONOSES;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; GREATER ANTILLES; JAMAICA;

HYMENOLEPIS DIMINUTA; MONILIFORMIS MONILIFORMIS; NIPPOSTRONGYLUS BRASILIENSIS; PROTOSPIRURA MURICOLA; RAILLIETINA; RATTUS NORVEGICUS; RATTUS RATTUS; STRONGYLOIDES RATTI; SYPHACIA OBVELATA; TRICHURIS; VERMES;

EID: 33845273809     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1645/GE-795R1.1     Document Type: Article

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