Helminth communities from two urban rat populations in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Parasites and Vectors

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Mohd Zain, Siti N ^a   Behnke, Jerzy M ^b   Lewis, John W ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

helminth species diversity; helminths; Heterakis spumosum; Hymenolepis diminuta; Hymenolepis nana; Mastophorus muris; nematodes; Nippostrongylus brasiliensis; Rattus norvegicus; Rattus rattus

Indexed keywords

ANGIOSTRONGYLUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GONGYLONEMA NEOPLASTICUM; HELMINTH; HELMINTHIASIS; HETERAKIS SPUMOSUM; HYMENOLEPIS; MALAYSIA; MALE; MASTOPHORUS MURIS; MONILIFORMIS MONILIFORMIS; NIPPOSTRONGYLUS BRASILIENSIS; NONHUMAN; PARASITE EXAMINATION; PTERYGODERMATITES TANI; PTERYGODERMATITES WHARTONI; RAT; RODENT DISEASE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; SYPHACIA MURIS; TAENIA TAENIAEFORMIS; ANIMAL; ANIMAL PARASITOSIS; BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PARASITOLOGY; PREVALENCE;

ANGIOSTRONGYLUS MALAYSIENSIS; ANIMALIA; CESTODA; GONGYLONEMA; HETERAKIS; HYMENOLEPIS (CESTODA); HYMENOLEPIS DIMINUTA; HYMENOLEPIS NANA; MASTOPHORUS MURIS; MONILIFORMIS MONILIFORMIS; NEMATODA; NIPPOSTRONGYLUS BRASILIENSIS; PTERYGODERMATITES; RATTUS; RATTUS NORVEGICUS; RATTUS RATTUS; RODENTIA; RODENTOLEPIS; SYPHACIA; TAENIA TAENIAEFORMIS; VERMES;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; FEMALE; HELMINTHIASIS, ANIMAL; HELMINTHS; MALAYSIA; MALE; PREVALENCE; RATS; RODENT DISEASES;

EID: 84863413556     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17563305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-3305-5-47     Document Type: Article

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