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Occurrence and characterisation of tongue worms, Linguatula spp., in South Africa

A total of 509 mammalian vertebrates, belonging to 76 species, were examined for infection with pentastomid parasites. These animals were from 8 of the 9 provinces in South Africa. Linguatulid pentastomes were found only in 7 animals, specifically the African Lion (n = 3) and African Buffalo (n = 4)...

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Autores principales: Shamsi, Shokoofeh, Halajian, Ali, Barton, Diane P., Zhu, Xiaocheng, Smit, Willem J., Roux, Francois, Luus-Powell, Wilmien J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7082498/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32211289
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijppaw.2020.03.002