Host-dependent variations in the seasonal prevalence and intensity of heterophyid encysted metacercariae (Digenea: Heterophyidea) in brackish water fish in Egypt

Veterinary Parasitology

Volumn 153, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 65-72

  Elsheikha, Hany M ^a   Elshazly, Attef M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b MANSOURA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Experimental; Fish; Heterophyidae; Intensity; Prevalence

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EGYPT; FISH; HAPLORCHIS; HETEROPHYES AEQUALIS; HETEROPHYES HETEROPHYES; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; METACERCARIA; MUGIL AURATUS; MUGIL CAPITO; MUGIL CEPHALUS; MUSCLE; NONHUMAN; PHAGICOLA; PREVALENCE; PUPPY; PYGIDIOPSIS GENATA; SEASONAL VARIATION; STICTODORA; STOMACH JUICE; TILAPIA NILOTICA; TILAPIA ZILLI; TREMATODE;

ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; EGYPT; FISH DISEASES; FISHES; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; PREVALENCE; SEASONS; TREMATODA; TREMATODE INFECTIONS; WATER;

DIGENEA (FLUKES); HAPLORCHIS; HETEROPHYES HETEROPHYES; HETEROPHYIDAE; MUGIL; PHAGICOLA; PYGIDIOPSIS GENATA; STICTODORA; TILAPIA;

EID: 41149178475     PISSN: 03044017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetpar.2008.01.026     Document Type: Article

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