Development of the feline lungworms Aelurostrongylus abstrusus and Troglostrongylus brevior in Helix aspersa snails

Parasitology

Volumn 141, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 563-569

  Giannelli, Alessio ^a   Ramos, Rafael Antonio Nascimento ^a   Annoscia, Giada ^a   Di Cesare, Angela ^b   Colella, Vito ^a   Brianti, Emanuele ^c   Dantas Torres, Filipe ^a,d   Mutafchiev, Yasen ^e   Otranto, Domenico ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TERAMO   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

^d INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^e Bulgarska Akademiya na Naukite   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

Aelurostrongylus abstrusus; feline lungworms; Helix aspersa; larval development; morphological identification; snails; Troglostrongylus brevior

Indexed keywords

HELMINTH RNA; RNA 18S;

AELUROSTRONGYLUS ABSTRUSUS; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHORESIS; HELIX ASPERSA; INFESTATION; INTESTINE CELL; KITTEN; LARVA; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; LARVAL STAGE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; OVERWINTERING; PARASITE ISOLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRONGYLE INFECTION; STRONGYLIDA; TROGLOSTRONGYLUS BREVIOR; ANIMAL; CAT; CAT DISEASE; CYTOLOGY; FECES; FEMALE; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METASTRONGYLOIDEA; PARASITOLOGY; SNAIL;

ANGIOSTRONGYLIDAE; CRENOSOMATIDAE; FELIDAE; GASTROPODA; HELICIDAE; HELIX ASPERSA; METASTRONGYLOIDEA; MOLLUSCA; PULMONATA; STRONGYLIDA; TROGLOSTRONGYLUS;

ANIMALS; CAT DISEASES; CATS; FECES; FEMALE; LARVA; METASTRONGYLOIDEA; SNAILS; STRONGYLIDA INFECTIONS;

EID: 84899939127     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: 14698161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S003118201300187X     Document Type: Article

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