Experimental infections with Fasciola in snails, mice and rabbits

Parasitology Research

Volumn 102, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1165-1170

  Hussein, Abdel Nasser A ^a   Khalifa, R M A ^b  

^a SOUTH VALLEY UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^b Assiut University Faculty of Medicine   (Egypt)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CERCARIA (TREMATODE LARVA); CONTROLLED STUDY; FASCIOLA HEPATICA; FASCIOLIASIS; INTEGUMENT; LARVAL STAGE; METACERCARIA; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; SNAIL;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FASCIOLA HEPATICA; FASCIOLIASIS; FECES; FEMALE; LARVA; LYMNAEA; MICE; PARASITE EGG COUNT; RABBITS;

FASCIOLA; FASCIOLA GIGANTICA; FASCIOLA HEPATICA; GASTROPODA; LYMNAEA NATALENSIS; MUS; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

EID: 42049089092     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-008-0888-5     Document Type: Article

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