Gastrointestinal parasites of stray cats in Kashan, Iran

Tropical Biomedicine

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 16-22

  Arbabi, Mohsen ^a   Hooshyar, Hossein ^a  

^a KASHAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL PARASITOSIS; ARTICLE; CAT; CAT DISEASE; CESTODIASIS; FECES; FEMALE; INTESTINE INFECTION; IRAN; MALE; NEMATODIASIS; PARASITOLOGY; PREVALENCE; SEASON; WILD ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; CAT DISEASES; CATS; CESTODE INFECTIONS; FECES; FEMALE; HELMINTHIASIS, ANIMAL; INTESTINAL DISEASES, PARASITIC; IRAN; MALE; NEMATODE INFECTIONS; PREVALENCE; PROTOZOAN INFECTIONS, ANIMAL; SEASONS;

EID: 72449159249     PISSN: 01275720     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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