Are we paying too much attention to cardio-pulmonary nematodes and neglecting old-fashioned worms like Trichuris vulpis?

Parasites and Vectors

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Traversa, Donato ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TERAMO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIPARASITIC AGENT; EMODEPSIDE; FEBANTEL; FENBENDAZOLE; IMIDACLOPRID; IVERMECTIN; LUFENURON; MEBENDAZOLE; MILBEMYCIN; MOXIDECTIN; PRAZIQUANTEL; PYRANTEL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ANTHELMINTIC AGENT;

ANEMIA; COLITIS; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; DEHYDRATION; DIROFILARIASIS; DOG; FECES ANALYSIS; HUMAN; INTESTINE NECROSIS; INTESTINE ULCER; JAUNDICE; MICROSCOPY; MONOTHERAPY; NONHUMAN; PARASITE CONTROL; REVIEW; TRICHURIASIS; TRICHURIS; TRICHURIS VULPIS; TYPHLITIS; ZOONOSIS; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; DOG DISEASE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY;

ANIMALIA; CANIS FAMILIARIS; NEMATODA; TRICHURIS VULPIS;

ANIMALS; ANTHELMINTICS; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; TRICHURIASIS; TRICHURIS; ZOONOSES;

EID: 79952346857     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17563305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-3305-4-32     Document Type: Review

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