Gross and microscopic pathological changes associated with parasitic infection in European eel (Anguilla anguilla, Linnaeus 1758)

Parasitology Research

Volumn 106, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 463-469

  Abdelmonem, A A ^a   Metwally, M M ^a   Hussein, H S ^b   Elsheikha, Hany M ^c  

^a Zagazig University   (Egypt)

^b Mansoura University   (Egypt)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGUILLICOLOIDES CRASSUS; ANGUILLICOLOSIS; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CESTODE; CILIATE; DACTYLOGYRUS; DEGENERATION; EEL; EGYPT; FISH DISEASE; HELMINTH; HISTOPATHOLOGY; INFLAMMATION; MIXED INFECTION; MYXIDIOSIS; MYXIDIUM GIARDI; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; PARASITOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEOCEPHALUS MACROCEPHALUS; PSEUDODACTYLOGYRUS ANGUILLAE; TISSUE NECROSIS; TREMATODIASIS; TRICHODINELLA EPIZOOTICA; TRICHODINOSIS; ANIMAL; ANIMAL PARASITOSIS; CLASSIFICATION; CYTOCHEMISTRY; HISTOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PARASITE; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PREVALENCE;

ANGUILLA ANGUILLA; CESTODA; CILIOPHORA; DACTYLOGYRUS; MONOGENEA; MYXIDIUM GIARDI; MYXOZOA; PROTEOCEPHALUS MACROCEPHALUS; PSEUDODACTYLOGYRUS ANGUILLAE; TRICHODINELLA EPIZOOTICA;

ANGUILLA; ANIMALS; EGYPT; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; PARASITES; PARASITIC DISEASES, ANIMAL; PREVALENCE;

EID: 77949319762     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-009-1688-2     Document Type: Article

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