Migration behaviour and pathogenesis of five ascarid nematode species in the Mongolian gerbil Meriones unguiculatus

Journal of Helminthology

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 43-47

  Cho, S ^a   Egami, M ^b   Ohnuki, H ^b   Saito, Y ^a   Chinone, S ^a   Shichinohe, K ^c   Suganuma, M ^c   Akao, N ^b  

^a AZABU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NIPPON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASCARIASIS; ASCARIDIA; ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; ASCARIS SUUM; BAYLISASCARIS PROCYONIS; BAYLISASCARIS TRANSFUGA; BRAIN; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE; FATALITY; GERBIL; HEART; LARVA; LIVER; LUNG; LUNG HEMORRHAGE; MALE; MERIONES UNGUICULATUS; NEMATODE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE MIGRATION; PATHOGENESIS; SKELETAL MUSCLE; TOXOCARA CANIS;

ANIMALS; ASCARIDIDA; ASCARIDIDA INFECTIONS; GERBILLINAE; HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS; RODENT DISEASES;

ANIMALIA; ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; ASCARIS SUUM; BAYLISASCARIS PROCYONIS; GERBILLINAE; MERIONES UNGUICULATUS; TOXOCARA CANIS;

EID: 34347348066     PISSN: 0022149X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022149X07212118     Document Type: Article

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