Endo-parasite fauna of rodents caught in five wet markets in Kuala Lumpur and its potential zoonotic implications

Tropical Biomedicine

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 67-72

  Paramasvaran, S ^a   Sani, R A ^b   Hassan, L ^b   Kaur, Hanjeet ^a   Krishnasamy, M ^a   Jeffery, John ^c   Raj, Santhana ^a   Ghazali, Sumarni Mohd ^a   Hock, Lim Kuang ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Malaysia)

^b UNIVERSITY PUTRA MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACANTHOCEPHALA; ANIMAL; ANIMAL PARASITOSIS; ARTICLE; CESTODE; CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALAYSIA; NEMATODE; PARASITOLOGY; RAT; RODENT DISEASE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; ZOONOSIS;

ACANTHOCEPHALA; ANIMALS; CESTODA; HELMINTHIASIS, ANIMAL; HUMANS; MALAYSIA; NEMATODA; RATS; RODENT DISEASES; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; ZOONOSES;

EID: 72449209304     PISSN: 01275720     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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