Identification of the intermediate hosts of Habronema microstoma and Habronema muscae under field conditions

Medical and Veterinary Entomology

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 283-287

  Traversa, D ^a,d   Otranto, D ^b   Iorio, R ^a   Carluccio, A ^a   Contri, A ^a   Paoletti, B ^a   Bartolini, R ^a   Giangaspero, A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TERAMO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FOGGIA   (Italy)

^d Faculty of Veterinary Medicine   (Italy)

Author keywords

Duplex two step semi nested PCR; Flies; Habronema microstoma; Habronema muscae; Intermediate host; Musca domestica; Stomoxys calcitrans

Indexed keywords

BIOASSAY; DNA; FLY; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; INTERMEDIATE HOST; NEMATODE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DISEASE CARRIER; FEMALE; FLY; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; INSECT; LARVA; MALE; NEMATODE; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ANIMALS; DIPTERA; FEMALE; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; INSECT VECTORS; LARVA; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PUPA; SPIRUROIDEA;

HABRONEMA; HABRONEMA MICROSTOMA; HABRONEMA MUSCAE; HAEMATOBIA; HAEMATOBIA IRRITANS; MUSCA AUTUMNALIS; MUSCA DOMESTICA; MUSCIDAE; NEMATODA; SPIRURIDA; STOMOXYS CALCITRANS;

EID: 49749130474     PISSN: 0269283X     EISSN: 13652915     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2915.2008.00737.x     Document Type: Article

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