Potentially zoonotic helminthiases of murid rodents from the indo-chinese peninsula: Impact of habitat and the risk of human infection

Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 73-85

  Chaisiri, Kittipong ^a,b   Siribat, Praphaiphat ^a   Ribas, Alexis ^c   Morand, Serge ^a,d,e  

^a MAHIDOL UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^c UDON THANI RAJABHAT UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^d CNRS   (France)

^e UMR ASTRE   (France)

Author keywords

Cambodia; Habitat; Helminth; Lao PDR; Rodent Zoonosis; Thailand

Indexed keywords

CONFERENCE PAPER; FEMALE; FOREST; GENDER; HABITAT; HELMINTHIASIS; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HUMAN; HYMENOLEPIS DIMINUTA; HYMENOLEPIS NANA; INFECTION RISK; LAND BIOME; MALE; MATURITY; MONILIFORMIS; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RESERVOIR; RODENT; SEASON; SPECIES; THAILAND; ZOONOSIS; ANIMAL; CAMBODIA; DISEASE CARRIER; ECOSYSTEM; HELMINTH; HELMINTHIASIS, ANIMAL; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LAOS; MURIDAE; PARASITOLOGY; RODENT DISEASE;

CYCLODONTOSTOMUM; CYCLODONTOSTOMUM PURVISI; ECHINOSTOMA; HYMENOLEPIS DIMINUTA; HYMENOLEPIS NANA; MONILIFORMIS MONILIFORMIS; MURIDAE; PLAGIORCHIS MURIS; RAILLIETINA; RATTUS; RATTUS TANEZUMI; RODENTIA; VERMES;

ANIMALS; CAMBODIA; DISEASE VECTORS; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; HELMINTHIASIS, ANIMAL; HELMINTHS; HUMANS; LAOS; MALE; MURIDAE; PREVALENCE; RODENT DISEASES; SEASONS; THAILAND; ZOONOSES;

EID: 84921963739     PISSN: 15303667     EISSN: 15577759     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/vbz.2014.1619     Document Type: Conference Paper

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