Effects of garlic on albino mice experimentally infected with Schistosoma mansoni: A parasitological and ultrastructural study

Tropical Biomedicine

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 40-50

  Riad, Nahed H A ^a   Taha, Hoda A ^a   Mahmoud, Yomna I ^a  

^a Ain Shams University   (Egypt)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLANT EXTRACT;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECT; GARLIC; ILEUM; LIVER; MALE; MOUSE; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITOLOGY; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SCHISTOSOMIASIS MANSONI; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; GARLIC; ILEUM; LIVER; MALE; MICE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; PARASITE EGG COUNT; PLANT EXTRACTS; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SCHISTOSOMIASIS MANSONI; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 72449203265     PISSN: 01275720     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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