Intermediate and paratenic hosts in the life cycle of Aelurostrongylus abstrusus in natural environment

Veterinary Parasitology

Volumn 198, Issue 3-4, 2013, Pages 401-405

  Jezewski, Witold ^a   Buńkowska Gawlik, Katarzyna ^b   Hildebrand, Joanna ^b   Perec Matysiak, Agnieszka ^b   Laskowski, Zdzisław ^a  

^a W STEFA SKI INSTITUTE OF PARASITOLOGY   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WROC AW   (Poland)

Author keywords

Aelurostrongylus abstrusus; Apodemus agrarius; Arion lusitanicus; Intermediate host; Metastrongyloidea; Paratenic host

Indexed keywords

DNA;

AELUROSTRONGYLUS ABSTRUSUS; APODEMUS AGRARIUS; ARION LUSITANICUS; ARTICLE; DNA ISOLATION; GASTROPOD; GENE SEQUENCE; HOST; LARVA; MORPHOLOGY; MORPHOMETRICS; NEMATODE; NEMATODE LIFE CYCLE STAGE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

AMPHIBIA; APODEMUS AGRARIUS; ARION LUSITANICUS; AVES; FELIDAE; FELIS CATUS; GASTROPODA; METASTRONGYLOIDEA; REPTILIA; RODENTIA;

AELUROSTRONGYLUS ABSTRUSUS; APODEMUS AGRARIUS; ARION LUSITANICUS; INTERMEDIATE HOST; METASTRONGYLOIDEA; PARATENIC HOST;

ANIMALS; CAT DISEASES; CATS; ELECTRON TRANSPORT COMPLEX IV; LARVA; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; METASTRONGYLOIDEA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RODENTIA; SNAILS; STRONGYLIDA INFECTIONS;

EID: 84888438528     PISSN: 03044017     EISSN: 18732550     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetpar.2013.09.003     Document Type: Article

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