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Of dogs and hookworms: man’s best friend and his parasites as a model for translational biomedical research

We present evidence that the dog hookworm (Ancylostoma caninum) is underutilised in the study of host-parasite interactions, particularly as a proxy for the human-hookworm relationship. The inability to passage hookworms through all life stages in vitro means that adult stage hookworms have to be ha...

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Autores principales: Shepherd, Catherine, Wangchuk, Phurpa, Loukas, Alex
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5785905/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29370855
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13071-018-2621-2