Filarioid Nematodes

Parasitic Diseases of Wild Birds

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 439-462

  Bartlett, Cheryl M ^a  

^a CAPE BRETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Avian filarioids, producing MF blood borne or skin inhabiting; Filarioids, specialized nematode parasites of tissues of birds, mammals, amphibians, and reptiles; Life cycles of avian filarioids standard filarioid pattern; Life cycles of filarioids hematophagous invertebrate intermediate host; Splendidofilaria eurycerca, living under epicardium or myocardium; treatment and control levamisole, fenbendazole, and mebendazole for psittaciformes

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889411922     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780813804620.ch26     Document Type: Chapter

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