Efficacy and safety of artemether against a natural Fasciola hepatica infection in sheep

Parasitology Research

Volumn 103, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 517-522

  Keiser, Jennifer ^a   Rinaldi, Laura ^b   Veneziano, Vincenzo ^b   Mezzino, Laura ^b   Tanner, Marcel ^a   Utzinger, Jürg ^a   Cringoli, Giuseppe ^b  

^a SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTEMETHER;

ABSENCE OF SIDE EFFECTS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MONITORING; DRUG SAFETY; FASCIOLA HEPATICA; FASCIOLIASIS; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; LOW DRUG DOSE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHEEP; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; WORM INFECTION;

ABORTION, INDUCED; ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ANIMALS; ANTHELMINTICS; ARTEMISININS; FASCIOLA HEPATICA; FASCIOLIASIS; FECES; INJECTIONS, INTRAMUSCULAR; PARASITE EGG COUNT; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASES;

FASCIOLA; FASCIOLA HEPATICA; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 46749149171     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-008-0998-0     Document Type: Article

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