Fleas infesting pets in the era of emerging extra-intestinal nematodes

Parasites and Vectors

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Traversa, Donato ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TERAMO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVERMECTIN; IMIDACLOPRID; INSECTICIDE; IVERMECTIN; LUFENURON; MILBEMYCIN; MOXIDECTIN; PRAZIQUANTEL; SELAMECTIN;

AELUROSTRONGYLUS; ALLERGIC REACTION; ALOPECIA; ANEMIA; ANGIOSTRONGYLIASIS; ANGIOSTRONGYLUS; CAPILLARIA; CAPILLARIASIS; CAT DISEASE; CTENOCEPHALIDES; DIROFILARIA; DIROFILARIASIS; DOG DISEASE; FLEA; FLEA BITE; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; INSECTICIDAL ACTIVITY; NEMATODE; NEMATODIASIS; NONHUMAN; PARASITE; PET ANIMAL; REVIEW; SANITATION; SKIN ALLERGY;

ANIMALS; CAT DISEASES; CATS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; FLEA INFESTATIONS; HUMANS; NEMATODE INFECTIONS; PETS; SIPHONAPTERA; ZOONOSES;

ANGIOSTRONGYLUS VASORUM; ANIMALIA; CANIS FAMILIARIS; CAPILLARIA; CTENOCEPHALIDES CANIS; CTENOCEPHALIDES FELIS; DIROFILARIA IMMITIS; NEMATODA; PULEX IRRITANS; SIPHONAPTERA (FLEAS);

EID: 84874584955     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17563305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-3305-6-59     Document Type: Review

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