Aelurostrongylus abstrusus in a feline colony from central Italy: Clinical features, diagnostic procedures and molecular characterization

Parasitology Research

Volumn 103, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1191-1196

  Traversa, Donato ^a   Di Cesare, Angela ^a   Milillo, Piermarino ^a   Iorio, Raffaella ^a   Otranto, Domenico ^b  

^a Faculty of Veterinary Medicine   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER 2; SUGAR; ZINC SULFATE;

AELUROSTRONGYLOSIS; AELUROSTRONGYLUS ABSTRUSUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; BAERMANN METHOD; CLINICAL FEATURE; COUGHING; DEPRESSION; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DYSPNEA; FECES ANALYSIS; FLOTATION; INFECTION RATE; ITALY; LETHARGY; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOUTH BREATHING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITOSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; SNEEZING; THROAT CULTURE; WHEEZING; WORM;

ANIMALS; CAT DISEASES; CATS; FECES; FEMALE; ITALY; MALE; STRONGYLIDA; STRONGYLIDA INFECTIONS;

ANIMALIA; FELIDAE; NEMATODA; STRONGYLIDA;

EID: 51449111687     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-008-1115-0     Document Type: Article

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