Gastro-intestinal parasites of red-fronted lemurs in kirindy forest, Western Madagascar

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 96, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 245-251

  Clough, Dagmar ^a  

^a GERMAN PRIMATE CENTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHORT ANALYSIS; MICROCLIMATE; PARASITE INFESTATION; PARASITE PREVALENCE; PARASITOLOGY; PRIMATE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BALANTIDIUM; BALANTIDIUM COLI; CALLISTOURA; CESTODE; ENTAMOEBA; EULEMUR FULVUS RUFUS; FECES ANALYSIS; GASTROINTESTINAL INFECTION; INTESTINE PARASITE; LEMURICOLA VAUCELI; MADAGASCAR; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; PARARHABDONEMA; PARASITE PREVALENCE; PROSIMIAN; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; STRONGYLOIDES; THYSANOTAENIA LEMURIS; TREMATODE; TRICHOSTRONGYLUS; TRICHURIS;

ANIMALS; FECES; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; HELMINTHIASIS, ANIMAL; LEMUR; LINEAR MODELS; MADAGASCAR; MALE; PREVALENCE; PRIMATE DISEASES; PROTOZOAN INFECTIONS, ANIMAL; SEASONS;

KIRINDY FOREST; MADAGASCAR; TOLIARA;

ANIMALIA; ANOPLOCEPHALIDAE; BALANTIDIUM COLI; CESTODA; DICROCOELIIDAE; ENTAMOEBA; EULEMUR FULVUS RUFUS; LEMUR; LEMURIDAE; LEMURIFORMES; NEMATODA; PRIMATES; PROTOZOA; STRONGYLOIDEA; TREMATODA; TRICHOSTRONGYLIDAE; TRICHURIS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 77953603475     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1645/GE-2258.1     Document Type: Article

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