Complex life cycle of Pterygodermatites peromysci, a trophically transmitted parasite of the white-footed mouse (Peromyscus leucopus)

Parasitology Research

Volumn 110, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 483-487

  Luong, Lien T ^a   Hudson, Peter J ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BEETLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYST (RESTING STAGE); INTESTINE PARASITE; LARVA; MOUSE; NEMATODE; NEMATODE LIFE CYCLE STAGE; NEMATODIASIS; NONHUMAN; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PARASITE VIRULENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PTERYGODERMATITES PEROMYSCI;

ANIMALS; GRYLLIDAE; INTESTINE, SMALL; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; MICE; NEMATODA; PENNSYLVANIA; PEROMYSCUS;

CEUTHOPHILUS; CEUTHOPHILUS GRACILIPES; CEUTHOPHILUS GUTTULOSUS; GRYLLIDAE; HEXAPODA; MUS; NEMATODA; PEROMYSCUS; PEROMYSCUS LEUCOPUS; PTERYGODERMATITES; RICTULARIIDAE;

EID: 84857064781     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: 14321955     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-011-2542-x     Document Type: Article

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