Failure of combination therapy with imidocarb dipropionate and toltrazuril to clear Hepatozoon canis infection in dogs

Parasitology Research

Volumn 109, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 919-926

  Pasa, Serdar ^a   Voyvoda, Huseyin ^a   Karagenc, Tulin ^a   Atasoy, Abidin ^a   Gazyagci, Serkal ^b  

^a ADNAN MENDERES UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b KIRIKKALE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN; IMIDOCARB DIPROPIONATE; TOLTRAZURIL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD SMEAR; BODY TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOG; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG POTENTIATION; DRUG TREATMENT FAILURE; EOSINOPHIL COUNT; FEMALE; HEMATOCRIT; HEPATOZOONOSIS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MONOCYTE; NEUTROPHIL COUNT; NONHUMAN; PARASITE LOAD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; TREATMENT DURATION;

ANIMALS; ANTIPROTOZOAL AGENTS; COCCIDIA; COCCIDIOSIS; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; IMIDOCARB; MALE; TREATMENT FAILURE; TRIAZINES;

ANIMALIA; CANIS FAMILIARIS; HEPATOZOON CANIS;

EID: 80052334633     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: 14321955     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-011-2334-3     Document Type: Article

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