Pathological and histological findings associated with the feline lungworm Troglostrongylus brevior

Veterinary Parasitology

Volumn 204, Issue 3-4, 2014, Pages 416-419

  Giannelli, Alessio ^a   Passantino, Giuseppe ^a   Ramos, Rafael Antonio Nascimento ^a   Lo Presti, Giuseppe ^a   Lia, Riccardo Paolo ^a   Brianti, Emanuele ^b   Dantas Torres, Filipe ^a,c   Papadopoulos, Elias ^d   Otranto, Domenico ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

^c INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^d Faculty of Veterinary Medicine   (Greece)

Author keywords

Catarrhal bronchitis; Histology; Kitten; Necropsy; Troglostrongylus brevior

Indexed keywords

RNA 18S;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BRONCHITIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; INFLAMMATORY INFILTRATE; LOEFFLER PNEUMONIA; LUNG EXTRAVASCULAR FLUID; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITE LOCALIZATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; RNA SEQUENCE; STRONGYLIDA; TROGLOSTRONGYLUS BREVIOR; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; CAT; CAT DISEASE; FEMALE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; METASTRONGYLOIDEA; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; STRONGYLE INFECTION; TRACHEA; VETERINARY;

FELIDAE; METASTRONGYLOIDEA; NEMATODA; TROGLOSTRONGYLUS;

ANIMALS; BRONCHITIS; CAT DISEASES; CATS; FEMALE; MALE; METASTRONGYLOIDEA; STRONGYLIDA INFECTIONS; TRACHEA;

EID: 84901733224     PISSN: 03044017     EISSN: 18732550     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetpar.2014.05.020     Document Type: Article

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