Epidemiological study of non-systemic parasitism in dogs in southeast Mediterranean Spain assessed by coprological and post-mortem examination

Zoonoses and Public Health

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 195-203

  Martinez Carrasco C ^a   Berriatua, E ^a   Garijo, M ^a,b   Martinez J ^a   Alonso, F D ^a   Ruiz De Ybanez R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA   (Spain)

^b Facultad de Ciencias Experimentales y de la Salud   (Spain)

Author keywords

Dogs; Epidemiology; Murcia; Parasites; Spain

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DOG; DOG DISEASE; FECES; INTESTINE INFECTION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITOLOGY; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; SPAIN; TOXOCARA CANIS;

ANIMALS; AUTOPSY; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; FECES; INTESTINAL DISEASES, PARASITIC; PARASITE EGG COUNT; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SPAIN; TOXOCARA CANIS;

ANCYLOSTOMA; ANCYLOSTOMATIDAE; ASCARIDOIDEA; CANIS FAMILIARIS; DIPYLIDIUM CANINUM; GIARDIA INTESTINALIS; ISOSPORA; ISOSPORA CANIS; IXODIDA; PHTHIRAPTERA; SIPHONAPTERA (FLEAS); TAENIA; TOXASCARIS LEONINA; TOXOCARA CANIS; TRICHURIS; TRICHURIS VULPIS; UNCINARIA;

EID: 34249784566     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1863-2378.2007.01047.x     Document Type: Article

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