Helminths collected from imported pet murids, with special reference to concomitant infection of the golden hamsters with three pinworm species of the genus Syphacia (Nematoda: Oxyuridae)

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 94, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 752-754

  Hasegawa, Hideo ^a   Sato, Hiroshi ^b   Iwakiri, Eri ^a   Ikeda, Yatsukaho ^a   Une, Yumi ^c  

^a OITA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c AZABU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLATWORM; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; NEMATODE; NEW RECORD; RODENT;

ARTICLE; ARVICOLINAE; ASPICULURIS TETRAPTERA; CESTODE; CONCURRENT INFECTION; GERBIL; HAMSTER; HELMINTHIASIS; HOST RANGE; JAPAN; MURIDAE; MURINAE; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; OXYURIDAE; PARASITE ISOLATION; PET ANIMAL; PREVALENCE; RODENT; RODENTOLEPIS NANA; SYPHACIA; SYPHACIA MESOCRICETI; SYPHACIA PEROMYSCI; SYPHACIA STROMA; SYRIAN HAMSTER;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; CESTODE INFECTIONS; CRICETINAE; FEMALE; GERBILLINAE; HELMINTHIASIS, ANIMAL; MALE; MESOCRICETUS; MICE; MURIDAE; MURINAE; OXYURIASIS; OXYUROIDEA; PHODOPUS; PREVALENCE; RODENT DISEASES;

ACOMYS CAHIRINUS; ASPICULURIS TETRAPTERA; CESTODA; ENTEROBIUS VERMICULARIS; GERBILLUS PYRAMIDUM; HETEROXYNEMATIDAE; HYMENOLEPIDIDAE; MESOCRICETUS AURATUS; MURIDAE; MUS MINUTOIDES; NEMATODA; OXYURIDAE; PACHYUROMYS DUPRASI; PHODOPUS ROBOROVSKII; RODENTOLEPIS; SYPHACIA; SYPHACIA STROMA; VERMES;

EID: 47349083578     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1645/GE-1347R1.1     Document Type: Article

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