Canine and feline cardiopulmonary parasitic nematodes in Europe: Emerging and underestimated

Parasites and Vectors

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Traversa, Donato ^a   Di Cesare, Angela ^a   Conboy, Gary ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TERAMO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABAMECTIN; ADULTICIDE; ANTHELMINTIC AGENT; ARSENIC ACID DERIVATIVE; AVERMECTIN; BENZIMIDAZOLE DERIVATIVE; DOXYCYCLINE; EMODEPSIDE; FEBANTEL; FENBENDAZOLE; IMIDACLOPRID; IVERMECTIN; MACROLIDE; MELARSOMINE; MILBEMYCIN; MILBEMYCIN DERIVATIVE; MILBEMYCIN OXIME; MOXIDECTIN; PEPTIDE DERIVATIVE; PRAZIQUANTEL; SELAMECTIN; TETRACYCLINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AELUROSTRONGYLOSIS; ANGIOSTRONGYLIASIS; CARDIOPULMONARY FILARIOSIS; CAT; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIROFILARIA; DIROFILARIA IMMITIS; DIROFILARIASIS; DOG; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG FORMULATION; DRUG SAFETY; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; EUROPE; FILARIASIS; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HISTOPATHOLOGY; INFECTION CONTROL; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOGENESIS; PREVALENCE; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; STRONGYLE INFECTION; SURVIVAL RATE; TABLET FORMULATION;

ANGIOSTRONGYLUS VASORUM; ANIMALIA; CANIS FAMILIARIS; CAPILLARIA; CRENOSOMA VULPIS; DIROFILARIA IMMITIS; EUCOLEUS AEROPHILUS; FELIDAE; FILARIOIDEA; METASTRONGYLOIDEA; NEMATODA; TRICHOCEPHALIDA;

EID: 77955897916     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17563305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-3305-3-62     Document Type: Review

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