Immune responses to fleas in two rodent species differing in natural prevalence of infestation and diversity of flea assemblages

Parasitology Research

Volumn 94, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 304-311

  Khokhlova, Irina S ^a   Spinu, Marina ^b   Krasnov, Boris R ^a   Degen, A Allan ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES AND VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Romania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLEA; GLUCOSE INTAKE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; LEUKOCYTE; NONHUMAN; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS; ECTOPARASITIC INFESTATIONS; FEMALE; FLEAS; GERBILLINAE; HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS; MALE; PARASITIC DISEASES, ANIMAL; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PREVALENCE; RODENT DISEASES; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

DASYURUS; GERBILLINAE; GERBILLUS; GERBILLUS ANDERSONI; GERBILLUS DASYURUS; RODENTIA; SIPHONAPTERA (FLEAS);

EID: 8744291786     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-004-1215-4     Document Type: Article

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