Heligmosomoides polygyrus reduces infestation of Ixodes ricinus in free-living yellow-necked mice, Apodemus flavicollis

Parasitology

Volumn 136, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 305-316

  Ferrari, N ^a,b   Cattadori, I M ^c,d   Rizzoli, A ^b   Hudson, P J ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b CENTRO DI ECOLOGIA ALPINA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^d PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Apodemus flavicollis; Co infection; Heligmosomoides polygyrus; Host mediated effects; Ixodes ricinus

Indexed keywords

ANTHELMINTIC AGENT;

AGE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTHELMINTIC ACTIVITY; APODEMUS FLAVICOLLIS; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; HABITAT; HELIGMOSOMOIDES POLYGYRUS; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HOST SUSCEPTIBILITY; HYPOTHESIS; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INFESTATION; IXODES RICINUS; MALE; MOUSE; NATURAL POPULATION; NEMATODIASIS; NONHUMAN; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RODENT; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; IMMUNOLOGY; IXODES; MURINAE; NEMATOSPIROIDES DUBIUS; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RODENT DISEASE; STRONGYLE INFECTION;

ANIMALIA; APODEMUS FLAVICOLLIS; HELIGMOSOMOIDES POLYGYRUS; IXODES RICINUS; IXODIDA; MUS;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; IXODES; MALE; MURINAE; NEMATOSPIROIDES DUBIUS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RODENT DISEASES; STRONGYLIDA INFECTIONS; TICK INFESTATIONS;

EID: 63449128599     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: 14698161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0031182008005404     Document Type: Article

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